- Jules Froment
Jules Froment (
Lyon , 1878 – 1946) was a Frenchneurologist . He earned his doctorate in 1906 with a thesis onheart disease s associated withthyrotoxicosis . For much of his career he was a professor at Lyon.Life
Froment is remembered for his work with
neurological diseases. DuringWorld War I he was stationed atRennes , where he treated soldiers with nervous disorders. After the war he co-wrote an important work withJoseph Babiński (1857-1932) concerning theetiology of phenomena such as "shell shock " and "combat hysteria." The study was titled "Hystérie, pithiatisme et troubles nerveux d'ordre réflexe en neurologie de guerre", and was considered controversial at the time.Also with Babiński, Froment is credited with describing a disease characterized by a combination of
vasomotor disorders, muscularatrophy and tissue damage. It is now known as Babinski-Froment syndrome.Froment is credited with devising a series of tests for nerve dysfunction, including a simple way to test
ulnar nerve weakness: if a patient holds a sheet of paper betweenthumb andindex finger and the thumb flexes, this indicatesulnar nerve palsy . This test is used to assess the condition of theflexor pollicis brevis muscle .Written works
* "La préhension dans les paralysies du nerf cubital et le signe du pouce"; La presse médicale, Paris, 1915, 23: 409.
* "Heredodegenerations retinienne et spino-cerebeleuse; variantes ophtalmoscopiques et neurologique présentés par trois generations successive" J Med Lyon, 1937: 153-163.
* "Troubles nerveux d’ordre reflexe. In their: Hysterie, pithiatisme et troubles nerveux d’ordre reflexe". J. Babinbski, J. Froment: Paris, Masson, 1917.ee also
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Froment's sign External links
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1764.html Who Named It?; Description of Eponyms associated with Jules Froment]
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