Portrait of Doctor Boucard
Tamara de Lempicka's portrait of Dr Pierre Boucard shows the French bacteriologist who in 1907 isolated Lactobacillus acidophilus from the human stool and developed Lacteol, an antidiarrhoeal drug still widely used in France and elsewhere. Born to a Polish-Russian aristocratic family in Warsaw...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | BMJ 2011-06, Vol.342 (jun22 1), p.d3920-d3920 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Tamara de Lempicka's portrait of Dr Pierre Boucard shows the French bacteriologist who in 1907 isolated Lactobacillus acidophilus from the human stool and developed Lacteol, an antidiarrhoeal drug still widely used in France and elsewhere. Born to a Polish-Russian aristocratic family in Warsaw in 1892 (or perhaps Moscow in 1898 or 1902-she was vague about her age and birthplace), Lempicka fled Russia with her tsarist husband after the revolution, when their luxurious lifestyle attracted the... |
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| ISSN: | 0959-8138 1468-5833 1756-1833 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.d3920 |