Étienne Pariset

Étienne Pariset (5 August 1770, in Grand – 3 July 1847, in Paris) was a French physician and psychiatrist.

In 1822, he was appointed perpetual secretary at the Académie Nationale de Médecine, a position he maintained up until his death.

From January 1826, he was associated with the Salpêtrière Hospital, where he succeeded Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol as physician for the insane.

[2][3] In 1819–22, he distinguished himself in his work combatting yellow fever in Spain, and from 1828 onward he conducted research of infectious diseases in Syria and Egypt.

In 1845, he was a founding member of the Société Protectrice des Animaux (SPA), serving as its first president up until his death in 1847.