Fulgence Raymond was a French neurologist

Neurologist

A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

 who was born in the French department Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.-History:Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

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Originally trained as a veterinarian

Veterinarian

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, he later studied human medicine under Alfred Vulpian

Alfred Vulpian

Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian was a French physician and neurologist. He was the co-discoverer of Vulpian-Bernard spinal muscular atrophy and the Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon....

 (1826-1887) in Paris

Paris

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. In 1877 he was chef de clinique under Germain Sée

Germain Sée

Germain Sée was a French clinician who was a native of Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin.He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1846 obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on ergotism. In 1855 he became médecin des hôpitaux in Paris, and subsequently worked at La Rochefoucauld , Beaujon , Pitié and...

 (1818-1896), becoming médecin des hôpitaux during the following year, and receiving his habilitation in 1880.

In 1894 he succeeded Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as chair of neurology at the Faculty of Medicine; a position he held until his death in 1910. During his career he worked with several famous physicians, including Joseph Babinski

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski was a French neurologist of Polish descent. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage....

 (1857-1932), Georges Marinesco

Gheorghe Marinescu

Gheorghe Marinescu was a Romanian neurologist, founder of the Romanian School of Neurology.After the attendance of Medicine at the Bucharest University, Marinescu received most of his medical education as preparator at the laboratory of histology at the Brâncoveanu Hospital and as assistant at...

 (1863-1938) and Pierre Marie (1853-1940). Radiologist Jean-Athanase Sicard

Jean-Athanase Sicard

Jean-Athanase Sicard was a French neurologist and radiologist who was born in Marseille.He studied medicine in Marseille and Paris, where he studied with Charles Emile Troisier , Édouard Brissaud , Henri-Alexandre Danlos , Fulgence Raymond and Georges-Fernand-Isidore Widal...

 (1872-1929) was a prominent student of his.

Raymond made contributions in research of syringomyelia

Syringomyelia

Syringomyelia is a generic term referring to a disorder in which a cyst or cavity forms within the spinal cord. This cyst, called a syrinx, can expand and elongate over time, destroying the spinal cord. The damage may result in pain, paralysis, weakness, and stiffness in the back, shoulders, and...

, neurasthenia

Neurasthenia

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, poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis

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, tabes dorsalis

Tabes dorsalis

Tabes dorsalis is a slow degeneration of the sensory neurons that carry afferent information. The degenerating nerves are in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord and carry information that help maintain a person's sense of position , vibration, and discriminative touch.-Cause:Tabes dorsalis is...

, diseases of the cauda equina

Cauda equina

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 and hemianesthesia (loss of sensation on one side of the body). With psychologist

Psychologist

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 Pierre Janet

Pierre Janet

Pierre Marie Félix Janet was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory....

 (1859-1947) he performed studies on neurosis

Neurosis

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 and psychosomatic disorders. Also with Janet he co-wrote Névroses et idées fixes and Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.

Selected publications

• Étude anatomique sur l’hémianesthésie, l’hémichorée et les tremblements symptomatiques, 1876
• Des dyspepsies, 1878
• Anatomie pathologique du système nerveux, 1886
• Étude des maladies du système nerveux en Russie (Report to the ministry), 1888
• Maladies du système nerveux: Atrophies musculaires etc., 1889-1894
• Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux (six volumes), 1896-1903
• Névroses et idées fixes (with Pierre Janet), 1898
• Les obsessions et la psychasthénie (with Pierre Janet, two volumes), 1903

External links

• Fulgence Raymond @ Who Named It
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• Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2066 (biography of Fulgence Raymond)