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BROUSSAIS, See also:FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH See also:VICTOR (1772-1838) , See also:French physician, was See also:born at St Maio on the 17th of See also:December 1772. From his See also:father, who was also a physician, he received his first instructions in See also:medicine, and he studied for some years at the See also:college of See also:Dinan. At the See also:age of seventeen he entered one of the newly-formed republican regiments, but See also:ill-See also:health compelled him to withdraw after two years. He resumed his medical studies, and then obtained an See also:appointment as surgeon in the See also:navy. In 1799 he proceeded to See also:Paris, wherein 1803 he graduated as M.D. In 1805 he again joined the See also:army in a professional capacity, and served in See also:Germany and See also:Holland. Returning to Paris in 1808 he published his Histoire See also:des phlegmasies ou inflammations chroniques; then See also:left again for active service in See also:Spain. In 1814 he returned to Paris, and was appointed assistant-See also:professor to the military See also:hospital of the Val-de-See also:Grace, where he first promulgated his See also:peculiar doctrines on the relation between " See also:life " and " stimulus," and on the physiological interdependence and sympathies of the various See also:organs. His lectures were attended by See also:great See also:numbers of students, who received with the utmost See also:enthusiasm the new theories which he propounded. In 1816 he published his Examen de la See also:doctrine medicale generalement adoptee, which See also:drew down upon its author the hatred of the whole medical See also:faculty of Paris; but by degrees his doctrines triumphed, and in 1831 he was appointed professor of See also:general See also:pathology in the See also:academy of medicine. In 1828 he published a See also:work De l'irritat"See also:ion et de la folie, and towards the end of his life he attracted large audiences by his lectures on See also:phrenology. He died at Vitry-sur-See also:Seine on the 17th of See also:November 1838.

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