Charles Foix

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Charles Foix around 1905

Charles Foix (born February 1, 1882 in Salies-de-Béarn , † March 22, 1927 in Paris ) was a French internist and neurologist .

Life

Charles Foix was the son of a doctor and trained at the Collège d ' Orthez . He studied medicine at the University of Paris and was taught by Pierre Marie at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière . In 1911 he received his doctorate in Paris and from 1912 to 1914 he was head of Pierre Marie's laboratory at the Salpêtrière. In 1921 he worked in a tuberculosis ward in Bicêtre . From 1923 he worked at the Ivry-sur-Seine hospital, which is now named after him . He was considered a gifted academic teacher and excellent clinician. His scientific contribution to neurology included the description of vascular syndromes, i.e. the connection between arterial occlusions and the symptoms caused by them. He published writings on the anatomy and vascular supply of the brain , partly together with Ion Niculescu (1895–1957). He also researched and published on the pathological changes in Parkinson's disease . He died at the age of only 45.

The Foix-Alajouanine syndrome , Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome and Marie-Foix-Alajouanine syndrome are named after Charles Foix .

Works

  • C. Foix, I. Niculescu: Anatomy cérébrale. Les moyens gris centraux et la région mesencephalo-sous-optique; suivi d'une appendice sur l'anatomie pathologique de la maladie de Parkinson. Paris, Masson, 1925.
  • C. Foix: Les lésions anatomiques de la maladie de Parkinson. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1921, 28 593-600.
  • P. Marie, C. Foix, T. Alajouanine: De l'atrophie cérébelleuse tardive à prédominance corticale. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1922, 38: 849-885, 1082-1111.
  • C. Foix, T. Alajouanine: La myélite nécrotique subaiguë (Myélite centrale angiohypertrophique à évolution progressive). Paraplégie amyotrophique lentement ascendante d'abord spasmodique, puis flasque. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1926, 2: 1-42.
  • C. Foix, JAE Chavany, J. Marie: Diplégie facio-linguo-masticatrice d'origine sous-corticale sans paralysie des membres (contribution à l'étude de la localization des centres de la face du membre supérieur). Revue neurologique, Paris, 1926, 33: 214-219.

literature

  • Boucher M. Charles Foix; sa vie - son œvre . In: Bucher M, rec. Conférences lyonnais dʼHistorie de la Neurologie et de la Psychiatrie (Institut dʼHistoire de la Médecine Lyon 4, Université Claude Bernard). Oberval, Lyon - Montrouge, 1982, pp. 201-218
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Foix, Charles. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 407 f.
  • Pierre Hillemand: Charles Foix et son œvre. In: Clio Med. Volume 11, 1976, pp. 269-287.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Foix, Charles. In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. 2005, p. 407.
  2. ^ LR Caplan: Charles Foix - The first modern stroke neurologist. In: Stroke. Volume 21, 1990, pp. 348-356.
personal data
SURNAME Foix, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French internist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Salies-de-Béarn , Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1927
Place of death Paris