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WE regret to announce the death on September 28 at the age of seventy-two years of Prof. Ernest Gérard, honorary professor of the Lille faculty of medicine and pharmacy, corresponding national member of the French Academy of Medicine and Society of Pharmacy and knight of the Legion of Honour. He qualified in 1887, and after acting as lecturer in pharmacy at Paris and Toulouse, he was appointed professor at Lille in 1902. He is best known for his work on fatty acids, fermentation and the role of cholesterol in health and disease. He was the author of a manual of galenic pharmacy, manipulations in pharmacy, the technique of sterilisation, a treatise on the urine, and a practical work on the analysis of food stuffs.
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[Obituary]. Nature 137, 15 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137015a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137015a0