Camille-Melchior Gibert

Camille-Melchior Gibert (18 September 1797 – 30 July 1866) was a French dermatologist who was a native of Paris.

He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1818–19 he served as an interne to Laurent-Théodore Biett at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.

[2] Gibert is remembered for providing the first accurate description of a papulosquamous skin disorder that he named pityriasis rosea.

[3] His best written work on skin diseases was a book called "Traité pratique des maladies spéciales de la peau" (second edition, 1840).

[4] In 1859, with Dr. Joseph-Alexandre Auzias-Turenne (1812–1870), Gibert took part in controversial experiments in which three volunteers were inoculated with secondary syphilis.