Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1573

FRANCOIS LEURET (1797-1851) Anatomie comparée du système nerveux. J.-B. Baillière; H. Baillière 1839-1857 Vol. I: xxxii, 592 pp. 22.2 cm.; Vol. II: [vi] 692 pp. 22.2 cm.; Atlas: 60 pp., 32 plates. 41.4 cm.

Leuret was a pupil of Esquirol and later the chief physician at Bicêtre. This extensive treatise on comparative neuroanatomy is a summary of what was then known on the subject. It is here that Leuret erroneously names the precentral and postcentral cerebral convolutions after Luigi Rolando (1773-1831), the well-known Italian neuroanatomist whom Leuret believed had first discovered them in 1829. Actually, they had been noted more than fifty years earlier by Félix Vicq d'Azyr (see No. 1073).

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