Charles-Eugène Quinquaud

Charles-Eugène Quinquaud (26 December 1841, Lafat – 9 January 1894, Paris) was a French internist and dermatologist.

In 1878 he became médecin des hôpitaux, obtained his agrégation in 1883, and from 1886 served as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.

During his career, he worked closely with dermatologists Ernest Besnier, Jean Alfred Fournier and Émile Vidal.

[4] The phenomenon was first described in alcoholics, and its description was first published by a student of Quinquaud's, six years after his death.

[5] In 1882, with physiologist Nestor Gréhant, he developed a method for determining blood volume through the use of carbon monoxide.