[A forgotten discovery: doctor of medicine Ernest Duchesne's thesis (1874-1912)].

It was only in 1946 that Ramon and Richou's publication in the newspaper "le Progrés Médical", reminded of Ernest Duchesne's thesis which dealt for the first time with antagonism between germs and mould like penicillium. Thanks to Justin Godard's paper at the Académie de Medecine, Duchesne was known as "the precursor of the antibiotic action of penicillium". From that moment, some papers were written and the thesis was even published in a luxurious edition. The 1983 year of the "Ecole du Service de Santé des Armées" was called Ernest Duchesne who can be considered as "the theoretician precursor of antibiotic therapy" according to François Chast.