Charles Foix - bibliography

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Biography

French internist and neurologist, born February 1, 1882, Salies-de-Béarn, département Basses-Pyrénées; died march 22, 1927.

Bibliography

  • C. Foix:
    Les lésions anatomiques de la maladie de Parkinson.
    Revue neurologique, Paris, 1921, 28 593-600.
    Foix and his colleagues showed that the specific lesions in Parkinson’s disease is in the substantia nigra of the mid-brain.
  • Charles Foix and Jean Nicolesco, publishers:
    Anatomie cérébrale. Les moyens gris centraux et la région mesencephalo-sous-optique; suivi d’une appendice sur l’anatomie pathologique de la maladie de Parkinson.
    Paris, Masson, 1925. Biographical:
    Revue neurologique, Paris, 1927, 34: 441-446 (Gustave Roussy).
    Aesculape, Paris, 1927, 17: 243-251 (Jean Vinchon).

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