Étienne Pariset

Étienne Pariset was a French medical doctor and psychiatrist, born in Grand on 5 August 1770 and dying in Paris on 3 July 1847. He took his medical doctorate in Paris in 1805 with a thesis on uterine hemorrhages, joined the Bicêtre Hospital as a physician in 1814 and in 1819 became head of its department for mental illness. In 1819 he also joined the commission for improving the lot of the insane alongside Esquirol, Pinel and Royer-Collard. In 1822 he was appointed perpetual secretary of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, a post he held until his death, and from 1826 he worked at the Salpêtrière Hospital, succeeding Esquirol as physician for the insane. Between 1819 and 1822 he combatted yellow fever in Spain, and from 1828 he researched infectious diseases in Syria and Egypt, where he became a friend of Jean-François Champollion. In 1845 he was a founding member and first president of the Société Protectrice des Animaux.