Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2109

ALBERT PITRES (1848-1928) Leçons cliniques sur l'hystérie et l'hypnotimse. Octave Doin 1891 Vol. I: x [2] 531 pp., 6 plates, illus.; Vol. II: [4] 551 pp., 10 plates, illus. 24.2 cm.

A pupil of Charcot's (see No. 1918 ff.) at the Salpêtrière in Paris, Pitres was later professor of clinical medicine and dean of the faculty of medicine at Bordeaux. He also worked with Charcot from 1877 to 1883 performing important experiments involving the delineation of the cortical motor centers in the human brain. Other areas in which he did major research included aphasia, agraphia, pain, paralysis, and various sensory phenomena. An active clinician as well as experimental neurologist, he investigated such neurological conditions as peripheral neuropathy, tic douloureux, and paraphrasia. The present work is dedicated to and contains a very favorable preface by Charcot. Pitres has here assembled and edited the clinical lectures he delivered on hysteria and hypnotism at l'Hôpital Saint André in Bordeaux from 1884 through 1890. He covers these subjects in considerable detail although a greater portion of the work is devoted to the etiology, classification, and treatment of hysteria. The half title page of Volume I has been inscribed by Pitres to a colleague.

See Related Record(s): 1918

Cited references: Waller 7477

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