Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2082

LOUIS THéOPHILE JOSEPH LANDOUZY (1845-1917) Contribution à l'étude des convulsions et paralysies liées aux méningo encéphalites fronto-pariétales. J.-B. Baillière 1876 248 pp., [2] plates, illus. 22.9 cm.

Landouzy's grandfather and father were both physicians and he chose the same profession. He began his medical education in Reims, his native city, and completed his M.D. degree in 1876 at Paris. In 1893 he was appointed to the chair of therapeutics and materia medica on the Faculté de Médecine at the Université de Paris and, in 1901, he took a professorial chair in the medical clinic. At the time of his death, he was dean of the medical faculty, editor in chief of the Revue de Médecine, and scientific director of the Presse Médicale. Landouzy prepared many articles on food and hygiene and was a leader in the campaign against tuberculosis in France. He wrote a number of books including a medical glossary with Félix L. Jayle (1866-1945) and a textbook of anatomy and physiology with Léon Bernard (1872-1934). An accomplished teacher and researcher, he showed the relationship between pleurisy and tuberculosis, was among the first to suggest that herpes is an infectious disease, with Déjérine (see No. 2114 ff.) described Landouzy-Déjérine dystrophy (facioscapulohumeral progressive muscular dystrophy), and wrote an early account of Weil's disease (leptospiral jaundice (see No. 2105)). This monograph is a classic work on the pathology and clinical effects of tuberculous meningoencephalitis. Landouzy describes the convulsions and paralyses arising from tuberculous disease of the frontoparietal areas of the brain, with expert scientific analyses of the site and pathological activity as shown in the many case histories of his patients.

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Cited references: Waller 5553

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