Jules Bernard Luys: a singular figure of 19th century neurology.

Contribution of physiologists to the identification of the humoral component of immunity in the 19th century

The history of antimicrobial humoral immunity usually focuses on the works of the German school at the end of the 19th century, born in the tradition of chemistry and disinfection. Starting from an old quarrel of priority about serotherapy between Emil von Behring (1854-1917) and the French physiologists Charles Richet (1850-1935) and Jules Héricourt (1850-1938), we first confirm that the latte...

Requiem for a neurologist: the funeral rites of Jean-Martin Charcot.

Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of modern neurology and leading figure in international neurology in the 19th century, died on August 16, 1893, in the province of Morvan in the French countryside, at the age of 67. The funeral service was held in Paris at the La Salpêtrière Hospital, and Charcot was buried in Montmartre cemetery in the same city.

The position of nervous diseases between internal medicine and psychiatry in the XIXth century.

It is frequently said and believed that the history of clinical neurology of the 19th century has much in common with the history of psychiatry. Though neurology and psychiatry are neighboring clinical disciplines, the development of clinical neurology differs from that of psychiatry in 19th century Europe. The history of bedside neurology is that of gradual separation of nervous diseases from ...

Introducing Books/ Oriental Show: Islamic Architecture at 19th Century World Exhibitions; Case Study of Muslim Societies, Mohammad Reza Moridi

French school of neurology in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, and its influence in Brazil.

French medicine was of the utmost importance for the birth of modern medicine and neurology in the 19th century. Innovative approaches, such as examination at the bedside, the use of the stethoscope, techniques of auscultation, palpation, and close patient examination, besides emphasis on anatomical-clinical correlation and observation of the outcome of the disease, were put into practice. Fren...