Jean-Louis Brachet (1789–1858). A forgotten contributor to early 19th century neurology

Antoine-Marie Chambeyron (1797–1851): a forgotten disciple of Jean-Etienne Esquirol (1772–1840)

“…Jean-Louis Brachet (1789Brachet ( -1858 (Walusinski, 2015) was a physician from Lyon who published innovative studies, although now forgotten, on the autonomic nervous system, the different forms of epilepsy in children, and various other subjects to which he applied a scientific rigour shown by few other early nineteenth-century physicians. During the long and turbulent debates on hysteria in the nineteenth century, he was recognized for having defended the idea that hysteria was purely cerebral in origin (Brachet, 1832).…”

‘Infantile convulsions’ in the early nineteenth century. Abnormal brain blood flow and leeches, teething and gums’ scarification and food and purgatives: the historical contribution of John Clarke (1760–1815)

“…In France, Jean Baptiste Timothée Baumes (1756-1828), professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier, wrote BDes convulsions dans l'enfance, de leurs causes, et de leur traitment^(On Convulsions in Infancy, Their Causes, and Their Treatment-Nimes, 1789; 2nd edition-Paris, 1805) [1789,1805] [2,3,17] and Jean Louis Brachet (1789-1858), French physician and surgeon, experimental neurophysiologist, and pathologist at the Hospital of Lyon [31], published BMémoire sur les causes des convulsions chez les enfants et sur les moyens d'y remédier^(BMemories on the Causes of Convulsions in Infancy, and on Their Means of Treatment^) [1824] [8], which was awarded the annual prize of the Circle Médical of Paris [17].…”