# Alfred Vulpian

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**Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian** (5 January 1826 – 18 May 1887) was a French [physician](/source/Physician) and [neurologist](/source/Neurologist). He was the co-discoverer of [Vulpian-Bernhardt](/source/Vulpian-Bernhardt_Syndrome) spinal [muscular atrophy](/source/Muscular_atrophy) and the [Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon](/source/Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington_phenomenon).

Vulpian was born in [Paris](/source/Paris), [France](/source/France), in 1826. Among other noted discoveries and experiments, Vulpian discovered [adrenaline](/source/Adrenaline) in the [adrenal medulla](/source/Adrenal_medulla). He was the first to use the term "[fibrillation](/source/Fibrillation)" to describe a chaotic irregular rhythm of the heart.[1]

## Vulpian's monument in Paris

A large marble statue has been erected to Vulpian, just at the end of Rue Antoine Dubois, a short distance from the Faculty of Medicine in which he once taught. In the basement, there is the following inscription: vulpian.

The statue features in [La Vérité (film)](/source/La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_(film)), situated outside the hotel where the main character, Dominique ([Bridgitte Bardot](/source/Bridgitte_Bardot)), lives for much of the film.

## Bibliography

- *Essai sur l'origine réelle de plusieurs nerfs crâniens*. Doctoral thesis, Paris, 1853.
- Note sur quelques réactions propres à la substance des capsules surrénales. *Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences*, Paris, 1856, 43: 663–665.
- *Des pneumonies secondaires*. Thèse d'agrégation, Paris, 1860.
- *Leçons sur la physiologie générale et comparée du système nerveux, faites en 1864 au Muséum d'histoire naturelle*. Paris, Gerner-Baillière, 1866.
- *Leçons sur l'appareil vaso-moteur (physiologie et pathologie) faites à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris en 1873*. Rédigées par H. C. Carville. Paris, Gerner-Baillière, 2 volumes, 1874–1875.
- *Leçons sur la pathologie expérimentale de l'appareil digestif*.
- *Leçons sur l'action physiologique des poisons et médicaments, faites à la Faculté de médecine de Paris en 1875*. Journal de l'École de Médecine.
- *Maladies du système nerveux; leçons professées à la Faculté de Médecine*. 2 volumes, Paris, Doin, 1879 and 1886.

## See also

- [Joseph Jules Dejerine](/source/Joseph_Jules_Dejerine)

## References

1. Cardioversion Past, Present and Future. Cakulev I, Efimov I and Waldo A. Circulation 2009; 120:1623–1632

## External links

- [Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian](http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2263.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170802155041/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2263.html) 2017-08-02 at the Wayback Machine. WhoNamedIt.

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