Louis Crouzon
Louis Edouard Octave Crouzon is a French neurologist born in Paris in 1874, of a French father and a Flemish mother, died in Paris in 1938.
Before its entry in the Medical college at the University of its native city of Paris it already had been influenced by Pierre Marie Felix Janet (1859-1947) and had shown his interest for psychology.
Étudiant in Paris it was very influenced by Paul Georges Dieulafoy (1839-1911), by Joseph Jules François Felix Babinski and especially by Pierre Marie.
Become doctor in 1900, it made its third cycle with Philippe Gaucher. He became then laboratory and senior registrar to the Hotel God in 1906, then in Médecin of the hospitals in 1912. During the First World War it was attached to the service of the ambulances, and was responsible for a neurological service militaire.
the capacities of organization which it developed for this period were employed then in social activities and of Community health. After the Crouzon war continued its work on the hereditary dystrophies, and in particular on the hereditary ataxias of the cerebellum, the deformities of the spinal column and the disorders rheumatic chroniques.
Crouzon remained with the Salpêtrière of 1919 until its retirement. He became president of the Neurological Company of Paris and secretary of the Neurological Review. He published many articles on the neuropathology and on the chronic arthritis of the elderly to the long stay of Salpêtrière.Une special pulpit of medico-social assistance was created for him, to which he was named in 1937.
Crouzon was decorated with the Cross War and commander of the Legion with honor.
Sources
- Biotop
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