Jean-Rene Cruchet

Jean Rene Cruchet was a French doctor, born the March 21st 1875 with Bordeaux, deceased in 1959.

Its summarized career

He makes his medical studies with Bordeaux where he obtains his doctorate in 1902 and becomes Senior registrar. He is named Médecin of the hospitals in 1907 and is incorporated the same year. In 1920 he is full professor of general pathology and therapeutic. In 1926 finally, it reaches the pulpit of Pédiatrie of Bordeaux.
Its principal fields of research were the tics, the spasmodic stiff neck, the epidemic encéphalite and the evil of the air.

Its principal work

Etude criticizes on the convuslif tic and its gymnastic treatment . Bordeaux 1901-1902.
Treated spasmodic stiff necks . Paris, Masson, 1907. 357 cases of toticolis its colligés in this monograph become traditional.
German universities at the XXe century . Paris, 1914.
evil of the aviators . In collaboration with R. Moulinier. In the medical current events, Paris, 1919.
chronic Meningitides and idiocy . In New treaty of medicine of Gilbert and Carnot.
parkinsonian states and the syndrome bradykinetic . With Henri Orchard (1873-1930). Paris, 1925.
the epidemic encéphalite . Paris, 1928.

eponymy

Disease of Cruchet: another name of the spasmodic stiff neck.
Disease of von Economo - Cruchet: another name of the lethargic encéphalite (or epidemic).

External bond

Biographical note on the site Who named it

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