Xavier Arnozan

Charles Louis Xavier Arnozan (12 November 1852 – 5 February 1928) was a French physician, professor of therapeutics then of medical clinic at the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux, member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of hygiene.

Biography He was born in Bordeaux, from an old family of merchants, son of Clémence Giard and the pharmacist Alfred Arnozan (1815-1888) and grandson of the delivering surgeon Amand Arnozan (1779-1861). After high school, he studied medicine at the Faculty of Bordeaux where his teachers were Maurice Denucé and . In Paris, in 1879, he defended his medical thesis entitled "Experimental study of the mechanical acts of vomiting", which earned him a bronze medal. He became an agrégé in 1880.

He described folliculitis decalvans, a scalp disease sometimes referred to as “Arnozan syndrome” or “Quinquaud’s disease”.

During the First World War, he was head doctor of two military hospitals 1bis and 28 in Bordeaux from 25 August 1914 to 10 January 1919. He was named to the division order by General Quinquandon, commander of the 18th region, on 20 November 1917.

He was elected National Correspondent of the Academy of Medicine for the Division of Anatomy and Physiology on 11 February 1913 and National Associate on 23 June 1925.

Legacy A hospital located in Pessac, part of the Bordeaux University Hospital (South Hospital Group), bears his name. The “Cours Xavier Arnozan” (ex. Pavé des Chartrons) in Bordeaux was named after him.