[From "primitive spleen epithelioma" to Gaucher's disease. Story of a forerunner]. / De "l'epithélioma primitif de la rate" à la maladie de Gaucher, une thèse visionnaire?

This report is devoted to Philippe Gaucher's life and career. His MD thesis, presented while he was just an intern, is a quite unfrequent example of the description of a new disease, based on the anatomoclinical study of a single case. Since more than 100 years, its eponym is still used in the international literature.