# Fulgence Raymond

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**Fulgence Raymond** (29 September 1844 – 28 September 1910) was a French [neurologist](/source/Neurologist) born in [Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais](/source/Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais), [Indre-et-Loire](/source/Indre-et-Loire).

Originally trained as a [veterinarian](/source/Veterinarian), he later studied human medicine under [Alfred Vulpian](/source/Alfred_Vulpian) (1826–1887) in [Paris](/source/Paris). In 1877 he was *chef de clinique* under [Germain Sée](/source/Germain_S%C3%A9e) (1818–1896), becoming *médecin des hôpitaux* during the following year, and receiving his habilitation in 1880.

In 1894, he succeeded [Jean Martin Charcot](/source/Jean_Martin_Charcot) (1825–1893) as chair of neurology at the Faculty of Medicine; a position he held until his death in 1910. During his career he worked with several famous physicians, including [Joseph Babinski](/source/Joseph_Babinski) (1857–1932), [Georges Marinesco](/source/Gheorghe_Marinescu) (1863–1938) and [Pierre Marie](/source/Pierre_Marie) (1853–1940). [Radiologist](/source/Radiologist) [Jean-Athanase Sicard](/source/Jean-Athanase_Sicard) (1872–1929) was a prominent student of his.

Raymond made contributions in research of [syringomyelia](/source/Syringomyelia), [neurasthenia](/source/Neurasthenia), [poliomyelitis](/source/Poliomyelitis), [tabes dorsalis](/source/Tabes_dorsalis) and diseases of the [cauda equina](/source/Cauda_equina), to name a few. He also investigated hemianesthesia, a condition involving semihemispheric loss of sensitivity due to lesions of the [cerebral cortex](/source/Cerebral_cortex). With [psychologist](/source/Psychologist) [Pierre Janet](/source/Pierre_Janet) (1859–1947) he performed studies on [neurosis](/source/Neurosis) and [psychosomatic disorders](/source/Psychosomatic_disorders). With Janet, he co-wrote *"Névroses et idées fixes"* and *"Les obsessions et la psychasthénie"*.

## Selected publications

- *Étude anatomique sur l’hémianesthésie, l’hémichorée et les tremblements symptomatiques*, 1876
- *Des dyspepsies*, 1878
- *Anatomie pathologique du système nerveux*, 1886
- *Étude des maladies du système nerveux en Russie* (Report to the ministry), 1888
- *Maladies du système nerveux: Atrophies musculaires etc.*, 1889–1894
- *Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux* (six volumes), 1896–1903
- *Névroses et idées fixes* (with Pierre Janet), 1898
- *Les obsessions et la psychasthénie* (with Pierre Janet, two volumes), 1903

## External links

- [*Fulgence Raymond*](http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/671.html) @ [Who Named It](/source/Who_Named_It)
- [Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2066](https://web.archive.org/web/20100702004751/http://itsnt361.iowa.uiowa.edu/fmi/xsl/hardin/heirs/record_detail.xsl?-db=heirs&-lay=weblayout&ID2=2105&-find) (biography of Fulgence Raymond)

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