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Valentin Jacques Joseph Magnan

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French psychiatrist, born 1835, Perpignan; died 1916.

Biography of Valentin Jacques Joseph Magnan

Valentin Jacques Joseph Magnan was an intern at the hospitals of Lyon and Paris, receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1866. Surviving a bout of cholera, Magnan became one of the leaders of the French school of organic psychiatry and amongst those influenced by him were the Russian Merzheivsky who worked with Bekhterev and the Romanian-Austrian neurologist Constantin von Economo (1876-1931). He was physician-in-chief at the Asile de Sainte-Anne.

Bibliography

  • De la lésion anatomique de la paralysie générale.
    Doctoral thesis; Paris, 1866.
  • Étude expérimentelle et clinique sur l’alcoolisme, alcool et absinthe; épilepsie absinthique. Paris. 1871.
  • De l’hémi-anesthésie, de la sensibilité générale et des sens dans l’alcoolisme chronique.
    Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie, Paris, 1873.
  • De l’alcoolisme, des diverses formes de délire alcoolique at de leur traitement. Paris, 1874.
  • Recherches sur les centres nerceux. Pathologie et physiologie pathologique. 1876.
  • Leçons cliniques sur l’épilepsie. Leçons . . . rec et publ par le Dr. Marcel Briand. 1882.
  • Leçons cliniques sur la dipsomanie, faites . . . Rec et publ par le Dr. M. Briand. 1884.
  • Des anomalies, des aberrations et des perversions sexuelles. 1885.

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