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François Alexis Albert Gombault
French neurologist, born October 2, 1844, Orléans;
died September 1904.
Associated eponyms:
Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy
A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence.
Biography:
François Alexis Albert Gombault studied in Paris, where he became externe in 1866, interne 1870, and wrote his excellent thesis on sclerosis - Charcot's disease, in 1877. He was a pupil and collaborator of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), conservator at the Musée Dupuytren, and médecin des Hôpitaux, from 1887 at the Hospice d'Ivry. He was a long time chef de travaux in the pathological-anatomical laboratory at the chair of André Victor Cornil (1837-1908), also lecturing on anatomy. He propagated microscopic anatomy and published an anatomic study on cirrhosis of the liver, and of aphasia.
Bibliography:
- Note sur les oblitérations du foie consecutive à la ligature du canal cholédoque.
Written with Jean Martin Charcot.
Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique, Paris, 1876, 8: 272-299.
- Etude sur la sclérose latérale amyotrophique. Thesis, 1877.
- Contribution à l'étude anatomique de la névrite parenchymateuse subaiguë ou chronique. Névrite segmentaire péri-axile.
Archives de neurologie, Paris, 1880-1881; 1: 11.
List of works in:
- Progrés médical, Paris, 1905, 3. s. volume 20, page 222.
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