Andral, GABRIEL

Andral, GABRIEL, a celebrated French physician and pathologist, born at Paris, 6th November 1797. In 1827 he was called to the chair of Hygiene, in 1830 to that of Pathology, in the university of Paris. He died February 13, 1876. Andral may be said to have been the first to apply an analytical and inductive method to pathology. His Clinique Médicale (1824) established his reputation, and his Précis d'Anatomie Pathologique (1829) was equally successful. Other works of importance are his Essai d'Hématologie Pathologique (1843); Cours de Pathologie Interne; and Recherches sur les Modifications de Proportion de quelques Principes du Sang.