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François-Joseph-Victor Broussais

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137: 188:, Broussais believed in the importance of physiology. He believed that diseases occurred when normal functions failed or were modified. Broussais' theory, known as medical physiology, argued that some diseases are just a result of irritation due to excitation or stimulation. This medical physiology became the most popular form of medical theory in Paris in the 19th century. It is believed that irritation then caused inflammation, which primarily occurred at the gastrointestinal tract in most diseases. Then, this irritation would pass to other organs "sympathetically". This led Broussais to believe that mild bloodletting could heal every illness. Broussais passionately advocated the use of leeches in bloodletting procedures, due to the belief that it was more gentle. With one particular patient, he prescribed around ninety leeches be placed over the body for this purpose. Additionally, Broussais believed that the ill were sthenic and needed to be prescribed sedatives. 31: 479: 120:
In 1814 he returned to Paris, and was appointed assistant-professor to the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace, where he first promulgated his views on the relation between life and stimulus, and on the physiological interdependence and sympathies of the various organs. His lectures were attended
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named after him, "Collège François Broussais". At the age of seventeen he entered one of the newly formed republican regiments, but ill-health compelled him to withdraw after two years. He resumed his medical studies, and then obtained an appointment as surgeon in the navy. In 1799 he proceeded to
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By degrees his doctrines triumphed, and in 1831 he was appointed professor of general pathology in the academy of medicine. Towards the end of his life he attracted large audiences by lectures on
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Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (8th ed)
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by great numbers of students, enthusiastic about his new theories.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
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Histoire des phlegmasies ou inflammations chroniques
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Vitry-sur-Seine
Saint-Malo
Dinan
Paris
Xavier Bichat
Germany
Netherlands
Spain
phrenology

grasshopper
bloodletting
J. J. Grandville
Laennec
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Chisholm 1911
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