Désiré-Magloire Bourneville - bibliography

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Biography

French neurologist, born October 20, 1840, Garencières, département Eure, Normandy, died May 28, 1909, Paris.

Bibliography

  • Études du thermométrie clinique dans l'hémorrhagie cérébrale. Doctoral thesis.
  • Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'épilepsie, l'hysterie et l'idiotie.
    1872-1875.
  • Études cliniques et thermométriques sur les maladies du système nerveux. 1873.
  • Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot.
    With Paul-Marie-Léon Regnard (1850-1927).
    3 volumes, Paris, Bureaux du Progrés Médical; V. Adrien Delahaye & Cie.
    Volume III: V. Adrien Delahaye et Lecroisnier. 1876-1880.
    A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories. The third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot's assistant at the Salpêtrière from 1870 to 1879.
  • Contribution à l'étude de l'idiotie. Archives de neurologie, Paris, 1: 69-91.
  • Manuel des injections sous-cutanées.
    With P. Bricon. Paris, 1883; 2nd edition, 1885; translated into English.
  • Manuel de technique des autopsies. Paris, 1885.
  • Assistance, traitement et éducation des enfants idiots et dégénérés. Paris, 1895.

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