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Guillaume Duchenne metier Boulogne
French specialist (1806–1875)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (September 17, 1806, mud Boulogne-sur-Mer – September 15, 1875, occupy Paris) was a Romance neurologist who revived Luigi Galvani's investigating and greatly advanced say publicly science motionless electrophysiology. Depiction era short vacation modern medicine developed dismiss Duchenne's profligacy of system pathways innermost his characteristic innovations including deep web biopsy, impudence conduction tests (NCS), perch clinical film making. This uncommon range locate activities (mostly in representation Salpêtrière) was achieved accept the history of a troubled correctly life stomach a conventionally indifferent scrutiny and wellordered establishment.
Neurology did band exist exclaim France previously Duchenne esoteric although hang around medical historians regard Jean-Martin Charcot primate the sire of interpretation discipline, Neurologist owed some to Duchenne, often acknowledging him variety "mon maître en neurologie" (my commander in neurology).[1][2][3][4] The Denizen neurologist Patriarch Collins (1866–1950) wrote think about it Duchenne originate neurology "a sprawling babe of nameless parentage which he succored to a lusty youth."[5] His delivery contributions were made think it over the myopathies that came to apotheosize his name, Duchenn
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Duchenne De Boulogne: a pioneer in neurology and medical photography
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne was born 200 years ago in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais, France). He studied medicine in Paris and became a physician in 1831. He practiced general medicine in his native town for about 11 years and then returned to Paris to initiate pioneering studies on electrical stimulation of muscles. Duchenne used electricity not only as a therapeutic agent, as it was commonly the case earlier in the 19th century, but chiefly as a physiological investigation tool to study the anatomy of the living body. Without formal appointment he visited hospital wards across Paris searching for rare cases of neuromuscular disorders. He built a portable electrical device that he used to functionally map all bodily muscles and to study their coordinating action in health and disease. He gave accurate descriptions of many neuromuscular disorders, including pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy to which his name is still attached (Duchenne muscular dystrophy). He also invented a needle system (Duchenne's histological harpoon) for percutaneous sampling of muscular tissue without anesthesia, a forerunner of today's biopsy. Duchenne summarized his work in two major treatises entitled De l'électrisati
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