Sigismond Jaccoud

In 1877 he was appointed professor of internal pathology at the medical faculty and member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Following the death of Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816–1883) in 1883, he was also made professor of internal medicine at the Pitié hospital in Paris.

At the turn of the 20th century rheumatic fever ravaged among children and youth, and the fact that there was, unlike today, no rational pharmaceutical therapy available, interest concentrated on the natural course of the disease.

As he published his lectures in book form, they are still available for study – covering an impressive variety of medical questions.

On tuberculosis, the greatest medical problem of the time, with its numerous complications, no less than ten lectures were needed.