Pierre Mollaret (1898-1987)

French physician and biologist, born on July 10, 1898 in Auxerre (Yonne, France). He was Henri Hubert Mollaret's father.
1916 Enrollment in medical and scientific training.
1917-1918 Mobilized as an auxiliary doctor to the Auto-Chir. N ø 3, then to the 114th Infantry Regiment. Decorated with the War Cross at the end of the war.
1919 Volunteered to the 19th Polish Hunt Corps ; decorated with the Order of the Polish Campaign.
1920 Resumed his training in medicine and science. His teachers were P. Claisse, L. Fournier, H. Darré, J. Hallé, F. Rathery and G. Guillain, of whom he was to remain the assistant during more than twenty years.
1924 Awarded third place in the competition for internship at the School of medicine ; received the Burland Prize.
1926 Obtained his license in Sciences.
1928-1946 Gave lectures on nervous system diseases at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
1929 Thesis defense for Medical Doctorate ; received the silver medal as a thesis prize.
1929-1931 Appointed head of clinic at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, where, from 1930, he was in charge of the malaria therapy center.
1931 Received the Herpin Prize of the National Academy of Medicine ; another prize awarded by this same academy : Saintour, 1934.
1932-1935 Worked as an assistant in A. Pettit's laboratory, and then in that of R. Dujarric de la Riviere at the Institut Pasteur.
1932-1939 Lectures on kidney diseases and diabetes at Professor Rathery's therapeutic clinic in Paris and participates in the annual course of the School of Malariology, directed by E. Brumpt.
1935 Became a doctor at the Hospitals of Paris ; received the Lallemand Prize from the Academy of Sciences ; mandated by the Institut Pasteur for a mission to the Epsom Malaria Center (England).
1935-1941 Appointed head of laboratory at the Institut Pasteur.
1936 Successfully passed the examination in general medicine (agrégation) ; thesis defense for Scientific Doctorate, under L. Lapicque's direction ; became a titular member of the French Society of Biology and Society of Exotic Pathology.
1936-1946 Participated in the microbiology course of the Institut Pasteur, teaching part of the courses on recurrent typhus, blood spirochetosis, leptospirosis, yellow fever and malaria.
1938 Became Secretary General of the Revue Neurologique.
03-05/1938 Pierre Mollaret's conferences were held in Greece at the request of the Institut Pasteur and the Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs.
1939-1940 Mobilized as a chief medical officer in an Army laboratory, then volunteered to Brest, for Africa, on June 18, 1940 ; served in the malaria department of the Casablanca Military Hospital.
1941-1944 Defended the French medical and biological press against the will of annexation of the German occupation authorities.
1941-1946 Appointed head of department at the Institut Pasteur.
1943-1944 Participated in the Medical and Teaching French Empire Committee ; became a member of the Epidemiology Committee of the National Institute of Hygiene ; appointed expert by the Ministry of Health for the control of medication.
1945 Appointed member of the trypanosomiasis Commission of the Ministry for the Colonies.
1946 Supervised the publication of La Presse Médicale.
1947 Succeeded to A. Lemierre, as a professor of infectious diseases at the Claude-Bernard Hospital.
1948-1984 His interest in history led him to give lectures and assiduously attend the sessions of the French Society of History of Medicine of which he was a member.
1954 As a result of the polio epidemic in Copenhagen, he created the first resuscitation service in the department of the Claude-Bernard Hospital. A few years later, in the same hospital, he opened the Institute of Tropical Medicine and African Epidemiology, thanks to the foundation of Gabonese President Léon M'Ba.
1958 Opposed the R. Debré's hospital-university reform.
03/12/1987 Death in Paris.

Publications in collaboration with :Th. Alajouanine, M. Aubry, R. Bastin, H. Beau, R. Bénard, I. Bertrand, I. Y. Bettancourt, L. Binet, A. Bonnefoi, G. Bourguignon, A. Brion, M. Cachin, G. Cateigne, M. J. Chaillous, A. et B. Chauchard, O. Crouzon, H. Darré, M. David, J. Delay, H. Desoille, E. Desnos, R. Digo, J. Ferroir, Fiessinge r, G. M. Findlay, L. Fournier, M. Fribourg-Blanc, P. Friez, Mlle Gillot, M. Gopcevitch, A. Grossiord, G. Guillain, J. Guillaume, G. Guillaux, J. Hallé, B. Kolochine-Erber, Ed. Krebs, B. Kreis, D. Lagache, Mlle Landowski, L. Lapicque, J. Le Beau, P. Lépine, J. Lereboullet, C. Levaditi, J. Lhermitte, A. Macé de Lépinay, R. Mallet, R. Martin, P. Mercier, R. Messimy, L. Michaux, Mlle Oehmichen, Mme H. Mollaret, N. Péron, P. Perreau, A. Pettit, R. Pluvinage, J. Raison, J. Ramadier, Fr. Rathery, L. Reinié, V. Robin, M. Rouzaud, P. Rudaux, Mlle J. Sainton, Mlle V. Sautter, J. Schneider, J. Sigwald, H. Simons, G. Stefanopoulo, J. Sterne, M. V. Strumza, Y. Tanguy, G. Thoyer, J. Tonnet, J. Trelles, J. Vieuchange, A. Vittoz, R. Waitz, Mme Zagdoun.

Bibliography :
- Lemaire (A.), Pierre Mollaret (1898-1987), La Presse Médicale , 17, Nø 8, 05/03/1988.
- Mollaret (Pierre), Titres et Travaux Scientifiques du Dr Pierre Mollaret , Paris, Masson, 85 p., 1946.
- Théodoridès (Jean), Le professeur Pierre Mollaret (1898-1987), Histoire des Sciences Médicales, official press of the French Society for the History of Medicine, t. XXIII, Nø1, 1989.

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