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In Search of a Lost Father: Adrien Proust (1834-1903), An Almost Forgotten Public Health Pioneer.

Donatella Lippi, Elena Varotto, Sara Boccalini, Angela Bechini, Francesco Maria Galassi

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Article in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Adrien Proust - overlooked as an occupational health practitioner, author and teacher.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Donatella LippiDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, School of Sciences of Human Health, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2388-5545
Elena VarottoArchaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide 5001, Australia.
Sara BoccaliniDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Viale GB Morgagni 48, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9695-7549
Angela BechiniDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Viale GB Morgagni 48, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6013-8779
Francesco Maria GalassiArchaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide 5001, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesIn this communication, we wish to remember the important historical role played by Marcel Proust's father, the now mostly forgotten Achille-Adrien Proust (1834-1903). STUDY DESIGN AND

methodsHis career, scientific interests and, above all, his brilliant intuitions and suggestions in the fight against cholera in the 19th century are recalled. RESULTS AND

conclusionsHis role in the promotion of a globally effective vision of public hygiene and health is stressed as a bright example for modern physicians fighting contemporary epidemics.

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history of medicinehygienepandemic emergencyProustpublic healthtradition

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PMID35632400
PMCPMC9146741

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