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(Left) Portrait of Louis Frédéric Wickham (Right) Cover of the Book “Radiumthérapie”, 1912

Montage of two images. On the left, a black and white photograph of a man with a full mustache. On the right, the cover page of a medical book.

(Left) Source unknown, date unknown. (Right) Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1912

(Left) Louis Frédéric Wickham is a French medical dermatologist and researcher. He is one of the pioneers in research on the science and applications of radium therapy.

(Right) Cover of the second edition of Radiumthérapie, written by Wickham and his colleague Paul-Marie Degrais, originally published in 1909. The document bears the title Radiumthérapie, with the subtitle cancers, chéloïdes, nævi, lupus, prurits, névrodermites, eczémas, applications gynécologiques (“cancers, keloids, nevi (or moles), lupus, itching (or pruritus), neurodermatitis, eczema, gynecological applications”).