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Jules Tinel
French neurologist, 1879-1952.
Associated eponyms:
Hoffmann's sign (Paul Hoffmann)
A simple investigation for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Parsonage-Turner syndrome
A now obsolete eponym once used to indicate many forms of cryptogenic neurologic atrophy of the shoulder and cervical plexus.
Tinel's sign
Pressure over nerve trunk that has been damaged or is regenerating following trauma causes a sensation of tingling and pain in its distribution up to the site of regeneration.
Biography:
Jules Tinel was born to a family with a five generation tradition in medicine. He began his studies in Rouen, but moved to Paris, becoming an interne in 1906. His teachers were some of the greatest names in French medicine at the beginning of the twentieth century, including Charles Emile Troisier (1844-1919), Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849-1917), Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845-1917) and Arnold Netter (1855-1936). Netter introduced him to the importance of infective organisms, and pathological anatomy, but it was Dejerine who made him decide to become a neurologist. He obtained his medical doctorate in 1910. He then had a fine career, becoming chef de clinique in 1911 and chief of the laboratory at the Salpêtrière in 1913. During World War I he served as head of the neurological centre at Mans.
After the war Tinel worked on the psychosomatic aspects of medicine. From 1922 to 1936 he was a physician at La Rochefoucauld. He then worked at Beaujon until 1940. He took an active part in the French resistance and was imprisoned. His son Jacques was killed by the Nazis in the death camp of Dora in Neuhausen. When he retired in 1945 he worked in the Boucicaut hospital. He died of heart failure in 1952.
Bibliography:
- J. Tinel:
Les blessures des nerfs. Sémiologie des lésions nerveuses périphériques par blessures de guerre.
Edition Masson et Cie, Paris, 1916. 511. pages.
- Ernest Marcel Labbé (1870-1939), Jules Tinel, E. Doumer:
Crises solaires et hypertension paroxystique en rapport avec une tumeur surrénale.
Bulletins et mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1922, 46: 982-990.
Labbé’s syndrome - chromaffin cell tumours of the adrenal medulla.
We thank Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.
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