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Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor

  • William R Albury

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Abstract

Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor: (b. St Malo, France, 17 December 1772; d. Paris, France, 18 November 1838), medical theory, therapeutics. Broussais was born in St Malo, on the Brittany coast, and spent his early years in the nearby village of Pleurtuit. His family had practiced the healing arts for several generations - his father as a surgeon, one of his grandfathers as a pharmacist, and one of his great-grandfathers as a physician. Broussais seems to have enjoyed a close relationship with his father, sharing not only the latter's interest in medicine but also his Voltaire an and anticlerical attitudes, and his strong support for the ideals of the French Revolution.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDictionary of Medical Biography
EditorsWilliam F Bynum, Helen Bynum
Place of PublicationUnited States of America
PublisherGreenwood Press
Pages266-268
Volume1: A-B
Edition2
ISBN (Print)0313328781, 9780313328787, 9780313328770, 0313328773
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Keywords

  • History and Philosophy of Medicine
  • European History (excl British, Classical Greek and Roman)

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