Charles Anglada

Charles Anglada was a French doctor and medical writer born in 1809 and died in 1878. Library records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France identify him as the author of a number of medical works, including Étude sur les maladies éteintes et les maladies nouvelles and a history of the medical faculty in Montpellier.

His best-known work explores the long history of disease, asking how illnesses emerge, evolve, and disappear over time. Rather than treating medicine as a fixed body of knowledge, he approached it historically, looking for patterns across centuries.

That perspective gives his writing a distinctive character: scholarly, reflective, and deeply interested in the changing nature of human health. For listeners drawn to the history of medicine, his work offers both period detail and an ambitious attempt to understand disease in the widest possible sense.