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Louis Francois Bravais

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French physician
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Louis Francois Bravais (1801-1843), was a French physician at the Bicêtre Hospital who first described Jacksonian epilepsy in 1827.

Selected publications

  • "Recherches sur les symptômes et le traitement de l'épilepsie hémiplégique" (1827). Doctoral thesis

References

  1. Eadie, Mervyn (January 2010). "Louis François Bravais and Jacksonian epilepsy". Epilepsia. 51 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02328.x. ISSN 1528-1167. PMID 19817818. S2CID 32531303.
  2. Shorvon, Simon D. (2023). "1. The birth of modern epilepsy (1860-1914)". The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860–2020). Cambridge University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-108-90531-2.
  3. Celestin, Louis-Cyril (2013). "12. The London consultant neurologist (1860-1864)". Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard: The Biography of a Tormented Genius. Springer. p. 115. ISBN 978-3-319-03020-3.


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