Léon Tixier
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French physician, born June 2, 1877, Paris.
Biography of Léon Tixier
Léon Tixier spent his student years at the University of Paris, where he obtained his medical doctorate in 1907. He was appointed Médecin des hôpitaux in 1919, and later worked at the Hôpital de la Charité. Tixier’s work concerns the field of paediatrics.
Bibliography
- Les anémies. Paris, Flammarion, 1923.
- Les enfants syphilitiques. Paris, 1931.
- E. Apert, Léon Tixier, Huc, Kermorgant:
Nouvelle observation d’acrocéphalosyndactylie.
Bulletins et mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1923, 3 sér., 47: 1672-1675.
- Leon Tixier.
Annales de médecine interne, Paris, January 1977, 128 (1): 69-72 (in French).
We thank Grace E. Jacobs for information submitted.
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