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Charles Anglada
1809–1878
A 19th-century French physician and medical writer, he explored how diseases appear, change, and sometimes disappear across history. His work stands out for treating medicine not just as diagnosis, but as a long story shaped by time and society.
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About the author
Charles Anglada was a French doctor, professor of medical pathology at the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier, and a member of the Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier. Bibliographic records for his works list him as living from 1809 to 1878, and several sources connect his career closely with medical teaching and scholarship in Montpellier.
He wrote on contagion, toxicology, inflammation, and the history of medicine. One of his best-known books, Étude sur les maladies éteintes et les maladies nouvelles (1869), looks at how illnesses emerge, fade, and are understood differently over time. That historical approach gives his writing a distinctive voice: he was interested not only in disease itself, but in how medical knowledge evolves.
Anglada also helped preserve and transmit earlier medical thought. Sources note that he revised and published work by Joseph Anglada, and library records show a long list of his lectures, theses, and medical studies. For modern readers, his books offer a window into 19th-century medicine at the point where clinical practice, public health, and medical history met.