Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2127

CHARLES ALBERT FRANCOIS-FRANCK (1849-1921) Leçons sur les fonctions motrices du cerveau. Octave Doin 1887 ix, 571 pp., illus. 23.4 cm.

After completing his doctorate in medicine in 1875, François-Franck became Marey's (see No. 1963) assistant in the laboratory of pathologic physiology at the Collège de France. Because of Marey's frail health and his desire to concentrate on research, he asked François-Franck to deliver the annual course of forty lectures, which he did for more than thirty years. The purpose of these lectures was to present research which would contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge and this gave François-Franck the opportunity to perform many original experiments. His principal subject was the physiology of circulation to which he made a number of important contributions. He became director of the laboratory in 1885 and succeeded Marey in the chair of physiology in 1905. In 1877, François-Franck and his good friend Albert Pitres (see No. 2109) initiated a series of neurological experiments which were ultimately continued and completed by François-Franck. The result of this collaboration was the present work in which François-Franck reports on the excitation of the cerebral cortex and the localization of cerebral function. The preface was written by Charcot (see No. 1918 ff.) under whom Pitres worked at the Salpêtrière. François-Franck was also a fine clinician having studied and worked with Pierre Charles Édouard Potain (1825-1901). His research into the mechanisms of circulation made his clinical opinions greatly valued and much sought after in his capacity as a cardiologist.

See Related Record(s): 1963 2109 1918

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1417; Waller 3225

Gift of John Martin, M.D.