# Alix Joffroy

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alix_Joffroy
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alix_Joffroy.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Joffroy
> Source revision: 1296733262
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Alix Joffroy** (16 December 1844, in [Stainville](/source/Stainville) – 24 November 1908) was a French [neurologist](/source/Neurologist) and [psychiatrist](/source/Psychiatrist) remembered for describing [Joffroy's sign](/source/Joffroy's_sign). He studied in [Paris](/source/Paris), earning his doctorate in 1873, becoming médecin des hôpitaux in 1879 and [agrégé](/source/Agr%C3%A9gation) in 1880. He worked at the [Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital](/source/Piti%C3%A9-Salp%C3%AAtri%C3%A8re_Hospital) from 1885 and succeeded [Benjamin Ball](/source/Benjamin_Ball_(physician)) as professor of clinical psychiatry in 1893.

[Jean-Martin Charcot](/source/Jean-Martin_Charcot) encouraged him to study neurology, and together they demonstrated [atrophy](/source/Atrophy) of [anterior horn cells](/source/Anterior_horn_(spinal_cord)) in the [spinal cord](/source/Spinal_cord) in [poliomyelitis](/source/Poliomyelitis) in 1869.

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alix Joffroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Joffroy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Joffroy?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.