Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville (born October 20, 1840 in Garencières ( Département Eure ), † May 28, 1909 in Paris ) was a French neurologist at the time of the Third Republic .
He studied medicine in Paris and worked as an assistant doctor at the Hôpital Salpêtrière and the Bicêtre hospital . In 1866 he volunteered to take part in medical interventions during a severe cholera epidemic in Amiens . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was employed as a surgeon and medical officer. When revolutionaries wanted to execute some wounded prisoners on the train of the Paris Commune in 1871, Bourneville stood up for them and saved the lives of several. In the 1870s he was a member of both the French Parliament and the City Council of Paris. In these roles, he advocated health care reforms.
Between 1879 and 1905 Bourneville was a doctor at the children's clinic at the Bicêtre-Hôpital. He founded a day school in Paris for the special education of mentally retarded children affected by epilepsy .
Bourneville wrote the first description of the tuberous sclerosis named after him and John James Pringle .
Web links
- Entry in Pagel: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Physicians of the Nineteenth Century .
- Biography at whonamedit.com
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| SURNAME | Bourneville, Désiré-Magloire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Garencières |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1909 |
| Place of death | Paris |