- Louis Delasiauve
Louis Jean Francois Delasiauve (
October 14 ,1804 -June 5 ,1893 ) was a Frenchpsychiatrist who was a native ofGarennes-sur-Eure . In 1830 he earned his doctorate inParis , and for the next eight years practiced medicine inIvry . Afterwards he worked at theBicêtre Hospital, and later became a director at theSalpêtrière , where he worked with epileptic and mentally handicapped patients. One of his better known assistants wasDésiré-Magloire Bourneville (1840-1909).Delasiauve was a pioneer of
child psychiatry and an advocate concerning education for the mentally handicapped. He is best known for his research ofepilepsy , and described three distinct types of the disease:
* Idiopathic epilepsy: Absence of physicallesion s; fundamentally a true neurotic disorder.
* Symptomatic epilepsy: Cerebral lesions being present;convulsion s being a symptom and not the disease.
* Sympathetic epilepsy: Produced by the irradiation of abnormal impressions which can have their seat in all parts of the body except thecentral nervous system .References
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://psychiatrie.histoire.free.fr/pers/bio/delasiauve.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Louis%2BDelasiauve%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Biography; Translated from French by Google]
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.baillement.com/lettres/delasiauve.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDelasiauve%2B1804%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Delasiauve, Treatise on Epilepsy]
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