Pierre Bretonneau 1771 - 1862
- occupation:
- Physician
- Nationality:
- French
performed (1825) the first successful tracheotomy for laryngeal diphtheria, wrote a treatise (1826) distinguishing between scarlet fever and diphtheria (which he named), described typhoid fever, and stated (1855) the germ theory of disease (which later became established largely through Pasteur’s work)