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Édouard Brissaud

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Nationality
  
France

Occupation
  
physician pathologist


Name
  
Edouard Brissaud

Role
  
Physician

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Born
  
15 April 1852
Besancon

Died
  
December 20, 1909, Paris, France

Employer
  
Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital

Books
  
Des Paralysies Toxiques - Scholar\'s Choice Edition

Édouard Brissaud (15 April 1852, Besançon – 20 December 1909) was a French physician and pathologist. He was taught by Jean Martin Charcot at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He had interests in a number of medical disciplines including motion disturbances, anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He died of a brain tumour, aged 57.

He has been awarded a large number of eponyms many of which are now rarely used and some were not the dominant eponym in use.

  • Bourneville-Brissaud disease – tuberous sclerosis. He studied one of the earliest diagnosed cases with Désiré-Magloire Bourneville in 1881.
  • Brissaud's scoliosis – a form of scoliosis giving "a list of the lumbar part of the spine away from the affected side in sciatica" (Dorland's Medical Dictionary). Described in 1895.
  • Brissaud's disease – Tourette syndrome. He gave a detailed description in 1896.
  • Brissaud's infantilism – infantile myxedema (hypothyroidism). Described in 1907.
  • Brissaud's reflex – a contraction of the tensor fasciae latae (a thigh muscle) on tickling the sole of the foot.
  • Brissaud-Sicard syndrome – is "hemiparesis and contralateral hemifacial spasm resulting from a pontine lesion" (Stedman's Medical Dictionary). Described in 1908. Named in conjunction with neurologist Jean-Athanase Sicard.

    • Papers

  • Bourneville D, Brissaud É (1881). "Encéphalite ou sclérose tubéreuse des circonvolutions cérébrales". Archives de neurologie. 1: 390–412. 
  • Brissaud É (1895). Leçons sur les maladies nerveuses. Paris: Masson. pp. 469–501. 
  • Brissaud É (1896). "La chorée variable des dégenerés". Revue neurologique, Paris. 4: 417–431. 
  • Brissaud É (1907). "L'infantilisme vrai". Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris. 20: 1–17. 
  • Brissaud É, Sicard JA (1908). "L'hémispasme facial altern". Presse médicale, Paris. 16: 1234–236. 

    • References

    Édouard Brissaud Wikipedia
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