Vidal, Fernand

He developed a reaction used to diagnose typhoid fever and some salmonellosis (1896); proved the role of salt in the pathogenesis of nephritis and cardiac edema and was the first to recommend patients to limit its use (1906).

From 1886 to 1888 he devoted himself to research at the faculty of pathological anatomy and for two years headed the research direction in the field of bacteriology in the laboratory of Professor Andre Victor Cornil . In 1895 he was appointed a doctor supervising hospitals in Paris , and since 1904 he began to teach at the Faculty of Medicine. In 1905, he began to work as a doctor at the Hôpital Cochin hospital and headed the medical clinics of the same institution.

Vidal wrote a series of works on infectious diseases, erysipelas, heart, liver, nervous system diseases, etc. In addition, he made a significant scientific contribution in the form of publications in various medical journals and encyclopedias. The Vidal test, a diagnostic test for typhoid, is named after him, and hematologist George Hayem described acquired hemolytic anemia, which has historically been called inflammation of Hiem-Vidal.

• 1889 : Etude sur l'infection puerpérale
• 1906 : La cure de déchloruration dans le mal de Bright
• 1911 : Maladies des veines et des lymphatiques
• 1923 : Nouveau traité de médicine , 22 volumes (with Georges Henri Roger , PJ Teissier )

• "Widal, Georges-Fernand," an article from Jewish Encyclopedia
• Georges-Fernand-Isidor Widal @ Who Named It (English)