A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . in 1881 Dean of the Faculty of Medi-cine of Paris. He died in August 1906. He madenumerous contributions to medical Uterature, and ofthis number the following deserve special mention:Le secret medical, second edition, 1893; Coursde mddecine legale de la Faculty de M^decine deParis. seven volumes; La pendaison, la strangula-tion, la suffocation et la submersion, 1896;LInfanticide, 1897; and Traits de m^decineet de th^rapeutique (in association with ), ten v
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . in 1881 Dean of the Faculty of Medi-cine of Paris. He died in August 1906. He madenumerous contributions to medical Uterature, and ofthis number the following deserve special mention:Le secret medical, second edition, 1893; Coursde mddecine legale de la Faculty de M^decine deParis. seven volumes; La pendaison, la strangula-tion, la suffocation et la submersion, 1896;LInfanticide, 1897; and Traits de m^decineet de th^rapeutique (in association with ), ten volumes. (Pagel.) A. H. B. Broussais, Frangois Joseph Victor.—Born December17, 1772 at St. Malo in Brittany. He served for anumber of years as surgeon in the French Navy andlater was appointed surgeon in chief of the militaryhospital at Val de Grace. In 1831 he was appointedProfessor of General Pathology at the Faculty deM^decine of Paris and held this chair to the time ofhis death on November 17, 1838. He was thefounder of the theory of disease, called Broussaisism,which was allied to, though in its therapeutic devel- 538. Fia. 1161.—Francois Joseph VictorBroussais. opment the opposite of the Brunonian system. Instudying the lesion of tjphoid fever he noted thefrequent occurrence of hyperemia, inflammatorymanifestations, ulceration, etc., in the intestine, andthis led him to look for, and naturally to find, signs of irritation in otherdiseases. From this heformulated the theorythat all acute disease isdue to irritation orirradiation proceed-ing from inflammationof the gastroenterictract. He believed thatall vital processes arethe result of stimula-tion; the sum total ofthe stimulation in thebody is, however, afixed quantity, andtherefore an ofstimulation in one partnecessarily results in adiminution elsewhere,this disturbance of theequiUbrium of irrita-tion being the essence of disease. The treatment ofdisease therefore should consist in efforts to reduce theexcess
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