01157nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001100055653001100066653002600077653001100103653001200114100001300126245003600139856007200175300001100247490000700258520067200265022001400937       1999                            d  c1999 Dec10aFrance10aGuyana10aHistory, 19th Century10aHumans10aleprosy1 aBrisou B00a[Paul-Louis Simond and Guyana].  uhttp://www.pathexo.fr/documents/articles-bull/T92-5b-1963-PLS21.pdf  a379-800 v923 a<p>On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of P.-L. Simond's discovery of the flea as vector of plague, the author recounts several episodes of the history of French Guyana where P.-L. Simond had his first position, starting with the official establishment of France in Cayenne in July 1898. During his stay in Guyana (1882-1886), P.-L. Simond directed the leper hospital in Acarouany, near Saint-Laurent du Maroni; it was there that he found the subject for his doctoral dissertation in medicine which he defended after completing his studies at the navy medical school of Bordeaux and which was entitled: "Leprosy and its means of spread in French Guyana".</p>  a0037-9085