MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE DE Jean-Baptiste Louyer-Villermay SUR LE DIAGNOSTIC DIFFERENTIEL ENTRE L EPILEPSIE ET L EPILEPSIE

Jean-Baptiste Louyer-Villermay

Verlag: Erscheinungsdatum: 1820

Manuscrit In-12 de 114 pages, autographe de Jean-Baptiste Louyer-Villermay, où il fait le diagnostic différentiel entre l'épilepsie et l'hystérie.- - - - - - Jean-Baptiste Louyer-Villermay (1776 - 1837) est né à Rennes, vers 1776, où son père était avocat. Il se destina de bonne heure à la profession de médecin. Attaché dès 1794 à l'hôpital de Rennes, il y fut chargé malgré son extrême jeunesse, d'un service chirurgical. Parmi ses blessés se trouvaient de nombreux Vendéens, pris les armes à la main. Il favorisa leur évasion, non par conviction mais par compassion, car il connaissait leur sort à la sortie de l'hôpital. Il fut arrêté et emprisonné pour cela quelque temps à la prison de Rennes. Libéré, il se rendit à Paris en 1795 pour compléter ses études, en particulier auprès de Philippe Pinel, dont il devint l'un des élèves les plus brillants. Il soutint sa thèse de doctorat en médecine, Recherches historiques et médicales sur l'hypocondrie isolée, par l'observation et l'analyse de l'hystérie et de la mélancolie en 1802. Son contenu et son style lui valurent les suffrages publics de Pinel et les éloges de Jean Noël Hallé. Sa thèse servit de base à son ouvrage majeur Traité des maladies nerveuses ou vapeurs, et particulièrement de l'hystérie et de l'hypocondrie qui connut deux éditions successives en 1816 puis 1832. Il prit un poste de médecin dans l'un des dispensaires de la Société philanthropique. Il devint membre de la Société médicale d'émulation, de celle de la Faculté, de l'Académie royale de médecine. Il fut enfin chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. - - - - - - Hysteria and epilepsy have long been compounded by the term hysteria-epilepsy even among neurologists and psychiatrists in the XIXth century, including Jean-Martin Charcot. It still is a current debate with the so-called non-epileptic seizures. Hysteria is a disease that has impassioned the medical world since antiquity, but in the middle of the XIXth century its definition remains embarrassing equally or the doctors as the patients. It is also the disease that has most greatly contributed to the accreditation of the errors of the past and which has provided specious evidence of the supernatural and marvellous. It has maintained the most in correct ideas on the intervention of dark forces such as the evil spirit. The Hippocratic theory which located the disease of hysteria in the uterus, (the ovaries and reproductive system), were not eradicated until the middle of the XIXth century despite the work of Charles Lepois, Willis, Sydenham and Pomme with their Treatment of vaporous affections of the two sexes , (6th edition An VII). - - - - - - - - In a 114-page unpublished manuscript written circa 1815, Jean-Baptiste Louyer-Villermay, considered the « signs that would differentiate hysteria from epilepsy ». - - - - In this manuscript, Louyer-Villermay clearly describes the contents of the attacks, the causes and the treatment of both statuses. According to him, hysteria is provoked by sexual abstinence, envy, heartache and is more frequent in women; it can induce attacks lasting for a long time. The best cure is to keep women away from men and to ban erotic books, which Charcot also proposed "by removing occasional causes." As for hysteria, Louyer-Villermay advised to perform electrical stimulation of the pelvis area, the same as Duchenne de Boulogne would later propose for hysterical paralysis. According to Louyer-Villermay, hysteria was due to some uterine disease involving the brain. On the other hand, epileptic patients present with shorter attacks, memory loss, limb and trunk convulsions, loss of bladder control. Epilepsy is sometimes hereditary and "transmitted by the parents", as written by Louyer-Villermay. But patient healthy morality does not induce healing as in hysteria. The uterus is not involved, only the brain and spinal cord are involved. Both genders are equally involved in contrast to hysteria. Epilepsy is incurable and may sometimes be lethal. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LUWLZ45

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Titel: MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE DE Jean-Baptiste ...
Erscheinungsdatum: 1820
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