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Eugène Devic
French physician, Born 1858, La Cavaleire, département Aveyron; died 1930.
Associated eponyms:
Devic's syndrome
A disease marked by partial or complete transverse and repidly ascending myelitis, frequently associated with progessive blindness and paraplegia.
Biography:
Eugène Devic grew up in La Cavalerie, a small village in the département Aveyron, in southern France. He studied medicine in Lyon under the internist Léon Bouveret (1850-1929) and Auguste Tripier (born 1830). He became a hospital resident in 1882, obtained his MD in 1886 and passed the agrégation in 1892. He first worked as a chef de travaux in Tripier’s laboratory and in 1894 was appointed Médecin des Hôpitaux de Lyon. He devoted himself to clinical practice at the Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon, later at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon.
Devic performed research of numerous neurological disorders, including infantile chorea, cerebral glioma and tumours of the corpus callosum. He was also involved with studies of typhoid fever, and the mental aspects associated with the disease.
In 1894 Devic and his student Fernand Gault described a rare nervous condition that affects the spinal cord and optic nerves that resembled multiple sclerosis. Today this disorder is referred to as Devic's disease or neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
Eugène Devic was the first in a family of brilliant neurologists, with his son André Devic, his grandson Michel Devic, who also reported on neuromyelitis optica, and now Christian Confavreux, an expert of multiple sclerosis.
- Isabelle Miyazawa, Kazuo Fujihara, Yasuto Itoyama:
Eugène Devic (1858–1930).
Journal of Neurology, Berlin, 2002, 249: 351-352.
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- L. Bériel:
Le docteur E. Devic (1858–1930). Lyon médical, Lyon, 145: 259–263.
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