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Philippe Pinel (French:; 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He worked for the abolition of the shackling ...
In 1922, he toured the United States. His best-known work is Les rites de passage ( The Rites of Passage , 1909), which includes his vision of rites of passage rituals as being divided into three phases: préliminaire or "preliminary", liminaire or " liminality " (a stage much studied by the anthropologist Victor Turner ), and postliminaire or ...
Charcot was a part of the French neurological tradition and studied under, and greatly revered, Duchenne de Boulogne. [9] [10] "He married a rich widow, Madame Durvis, in 1864 and had three children, Jeanne, Jean-Paul and Jean-Baptiste, who later became a doctor and a famous polar explorer". [11] He has been described as an atheist. [12]
Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [ 9 ]
Marie François Xavier Bichat (/ b iː ˈ ʃ ɑː /; [3] French:; 14 November 1771 – 22 July 1802) [4] was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. [ 5 ] [ a ] Although he worked without a microscope , Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed ...
Ambroise Paré (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine , especially in the ...
The Paris School of Medicine was the result of a multitude of factors spanning the decades before, during, and after the French Revolution. It was during this time period where traditional limits disappeared and innovation occurred, with numerous talented doctors in addition to the modernized facilities and abundance of patients.
Antoine Louis (French: [ɑ̃twan lwi]; 13 February 1723, Metz – 20 May 1792) was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist. He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a sergeant major at a local military hospital. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he served as gagnant-maîtrise at the Salpêtrière. In 1750 he was ...