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Joseph Jules François Felix Babinski (in Polish Józef Franciszek Feliks Babiński) was a neurologist French, born with Paris the November 17th 1857 and deceased in the same city the October 29th 1932).
Wire of an engineer Polish installed in Paris in 1848 to escape Russian repression from inclinations from independence from Poland, Joseph Babinski grows in Montparnasse. At the end of sound boarding school, he becomes senior registrar of Charcot of which he will become the preferred pupil, and takes part in the lessons of the Master to the Salpêtrière. He shared his existence with his brother Henri, engineer of the mines and gastronome celebrates at the time under the pseudonym of “Ali-Bab”.
In 1890, it is named doctor of the hospitals . It is said that it was not very loquacious during its consultations but it was an exceptional observer. He becomes department head with the Hôpital of Pity, in 1895, where he will exert until his retirement in 1922. Reached Parkinson's disease, he dies in December 1932.
He knew to codify the Neurologie, to distinguish the great neurological organic affections from the syndromes psychiatric. Its studies on the reflexes, the physiology of the cerebellum are only some stages of the work of the one of the founders of " the company of neurologie". Babinski gave its name to the Signe of Babinski.
Works
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J. Babinski, anatomical and clinical Study on the Multiple sclerosis , Paris, 1885
- J. Babinski and Jules Wheat, Hysteria-pithiatism and nervous disorders of order reflex in neurology of war , Paris, 1917
References
- scientific Work of Babinski: collection of principal work, Paris, Masson, 1934
Bonds
- bilingual Site with detailed and illustrated biography of Babinski