Jacques Jean Lhermitte
| Born | 1877 |
| Died | 1979 |
Related eponyms
- Lhermitte's hallucinosis
- Lhermitte's sign
- Lhermitte's syndrome
- Lhermitte-Cornil-Quesnel syndrome
- Lhermitte-Duclos syndrome
- Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome
- Lhermitte-McAlpine syndrome
- Lhermittes-Trelles syndrome
- Roth-Bielschowsky syndrome
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Biography of Jacques Jean Lhermitte
Jacques Jean Lhermitte was the son of an artist. Following early education at St. Etienne he studied in Paris, graduating in medicine in 1907. He specialised in neurology and became Chef-de-clinique for nervous diseases in 1908, 1910 Chef de laboratoire, and professeur agrégé for psychiatry 1922. He later became Médecin at the Hospice Paul Brousse, head of the Fondation Dejerine, and clinical director at the Salpêtrière.
During World War I he studied spinal injuries and became interested in neuropsychiatry. This led to publications on visual hallucinations of the self. A deeply religious man, he explored the common territory between theology and medicine, and this led to interesting studies on demoniacal possession and stigmatisation. Lhermitte was a great clinical neurologists whose enthusiasm which infected his younger contemporaries.
