French pulmonologists

Édouard Rist (16 March 1871, Strasbourg – 13 April 1956, Paris) was a French physician who specialized in tuberculosis research (phthisiology). He was the brother of economist Charles Rist.
In 1899/90, he served as an inspector of health and quarantine services in Egypt, and after his return to France, was named laboratory chief at the Hôpital Trousseau in Paris. From 1910 to 1937, he was a physician at the Hôpital Laennec, and concurrently served as a physician at the Dispensaire Léon Bourgeois (1912–37).During World War I he was chef de service of typhoid and para-typhoid hospitals. In 1919, he was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal of the United States and made a commander of the Legion of Honour. In 1933, he became a member of the Académie de médecine, of which, he later served as its president. The "Clinique médicale et pédagogique Édouard Rist", located in the 16th district of Paris, is named after him.

Maurice Perrin (21 May 1875 – 18 October 1956) was a French physician and professor of medicine at Nancy.
He earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy at 19, began employment for a hospital in 1898 and earned his MD in 1901 with a thesis on polyneuritis. He became an associate in 1910, and was posted to the tuberculosis clinic where he remained for 25 years.
He published over 200 articles, including his thesis in 1932 focusing on "the Alveolar echinococcosis of the liver". He became a professor of clinical medicine at Nancy in 1936.
He was promoted to the rank of colonel in the French Army Reserves in 1936.

Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 – October 6, 1892) was a French physician born in Prey, Vosges. In 1865 he demonstrated that tuberculosis was an infectious disease.