Ernest Besnier
[citation needed] He succeeded Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin as director at the Hôpital Saint Louis.[2] He built histopathology and parasitology laboratories at the hospital, and is credited with originating the term biopsy for tissue samples.In 1889 he proved an early description of skin lesions associated with sarcoidosis, introducing the name "lupus pernio".Besnier attempted to balance the differences between the French and Viennese approaches to dermatological medicine, and in 1881 with Doyon, translated Moritz Kaposi's famous book on skin diseases (Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten in Vorlesungen für praktische Ärzte und Studirende) from German into French (Leçons sur les maladies de la peau).[4] With Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq and Lucien Jacquet, he published a four volume encyclopedia of dermatology, titled "La pratique dermatologique" (1900–04).