Jean Antoine Villemin

Jean Antoine Villemin

Jean Antoine Villemin (1827 - 1892) French physician. Born into a poor peasant family, Villemin studied medicine at the military school at Strasbourg, and after wards practiced as a doctor at military hospitals. His important contribution to medicine was the demonstration, in 1865, that tuberculosis was an infectious disease, a finding that was largely ignored at that time.