Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2115

JOSEPH JULES DéJéRINE (1849-1917) Anatomie des centres nerveux. Rueff et Cie 1895-1901 Vol. I: [6] iii [1] 816 pp., 401 illus. (45 col.); Vol. II: [4] 720 [8] pp., 465 illus. (180 col.). 26.6 cm.

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Déjérine's coauthor was his wife, Augusta Marie Klumpke, whom he married in 1890. She was a native of San Francisco, received her medical degree in 1889, and was the first female intern in the hospitals of Paris. An able and dedicated neurologist, she described the symptomatology of lesions of the lower brachial plexus in 1885 and carried on Déjérine's work after his death. Déjérine-Klumpke was especially supportive of Déjérine and assisted him in the research and preparation of the present work. It is one of his greatest contributions and is still of value today. In this comprehensive treatise, the Déjérines explore in detail the several methods they employed in their study, discuss the embryological development and histology of the central nervous system, as well as all aspects of its anatomy. This inscribed copy was presented by the authors to Arnold Pick (1851-1924), the well-known professor of psychiatry at Prague who is remembered for his work on apraxia and his description of lobar cortical atrophy (Pick's disease).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1424