Joseph-Alexandre Auzias-Turenne, born on March 1, 1812, in Pertuis (Vaucluse) and died on May 27, 1870, in Paris,[1] was a French doctor.
He advocated the preventive inoculation of syphilis,[2] on the model of the variolation, and dedicated his life to this idea that posterity has not ratified.
[3] In 1859, with Camille-Melchior Gibert, he took part in a controversial experiment in which human patients were deliberately infected with syphilis in order to prove the infectious nature of secondary syphilis.
He supported a theory of immunization as depletion, in the subject, of a substance necessary for the infectious agent.
He advocated the use of microbial antagonisms for therapeutic purposes[7] (cure of diseases like favus, elephantiasis, lupus and cancer).