Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1912

PAUL BROCA (1824-1880) Des anévrysmes et de leur traitement. Labé 1856 [4] vii [1] 931 pp., illus. 21.6 cm.

Broca is especially remembered for his work in the localization of speech in the third convolution of the left frontal lobe of the brain. Although controversial, his work led to a better understanding of the functional areas of the brain and enabled him to become the first surgeon to operate on a brain abscess, the site of which he determined on the basis of localization of function. Broca was awarded his medical degree at Paris in 1849, and during his career served as surgeon to St. Antoine, La Pitié, Hôpital des Cliniques, and Hôpital Necker. Long associated with the Paris Faculty of Medicine, he eventually was appointed to the professorship of clinical surgery which allowed him to pursue his interests in anthropology. One of France's foremost anthropologists, Broca pioneered the modern science of craniology, developed new techniques for measuring the skull and brain, and designed new instruments and tools to make his work possible. This comprehensive treatise on the classification, pathology, and treatment of aneurysms still remains one of the most exhaustive and accurate accounts of this medically important and dangerous condition.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.