Emile Achard

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Emile Achard, full name Emile Charles Achard was a French internist. For much of his career he was a professor at the University of Paris. He also was also a physician at Hôpital Cochin in Paris. Achard's name is associated with several facets in medicine. In 1896 with Dr. Raoul Bensaude (1866-1938) he identified a disease he called paratyphoid fever, and was able to isolate the cause to a microbe named "salmonella paratyphi".