Henri-Alexandre Danlos

Who was Henri-Alexandre Danlos?

Henri-Alexandre Danlos was a French physician and dermatologist born in Paris. With Danish dermatologist Edvard Ehlers, the Ehlers–Danlos syndrome is named, which is a group of inherited connective tissue disorders.

He studied medicine in Paris, and during the early part of his career performed research in the laboratory of Charles-Adolphe Wurtz. In 1881 he became médecin des hôpitaux, and four years later was chef de service at the Hôpital Tenon in Paris. In 1895 he received an appointment at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.

Danlos was pioneer in the use of radium for treatment of lupus erythematosus of the skin, and in 1901 with physicist Eugène Bloch, he was the first to apply radium on tuberculous skin lesions.