# Pierre Bonnier

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'''Pierre Bonnier''' (16 August 1861 in [Templeuve](/source/Templeuve-en-P%C3%A9v%C3%A8le) – 22 March 1918 in [Paris](/source/Paris)) was a French [otologist](/source/otologist). He was the brother of architect [Louis Bonnier](/source/Louis_Bonnier) (1856–1946).

He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1897 began work as an assistant in the medical clinic of the [Hôtel-Dieu](/source/H%C3%B4tel-Dieu_de_Paris) in Paris. In 1901 he was named president of Société d’Otologie et de Laryngologie de Paris. He was a member of the Institut Psychologique (from 1902) and the Société de Neurologie (from 1903).<ref name=GO>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0fnBgHlqqAIC&dq=%22Pierre+Bonnier%22+Templeuve&pg=PA148 Classic Cases in Neuropsychology, Volume 2] edited by Chris Code, Yves Joanette, Andre Roch Lecours, Claus-W. Wallesch</ref>

He specialized in research of [auditory](/source/auditory_system) and [vestibular system](/source/vestibular_system)s and their disorders.<ref name=GO/> The eponymous "Bonnier syndrome" is a syndrome characterized by deafness, ocular disturbances and other symptoms due to a lesion of the [nucleus of Deiters](/source/Lateral_vestibular_nucleus).<ref>[http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=87745 Bonnier syndrome] Medlexicon</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pMbhu-vXVtAC&dq=%22Bonnier+syndrome%22&pg=PA119 Companion to Clinical Neurology] by William Pryse-Phillips</ref> Around 1905 he introduced the term ''aschématie'' (aschematia) for a group of symptoms indicated by an inadequate account of the space occupied by some part of the body.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KJtQptBcZloC&dq=%22Pierre+Bonnier%22+1861&pg=PA38 A Dictionary of Hallucinations] by Jan Dirk Blom</ref>

== Selected works ==
* ''Vertige'', 1894 &ndash; [Vertigo](/source/Vertigo).
* ''L'oreille'', 1896 &ndash; The ear.
* ''L'audition'', 1901 &ndash; Hearing.
* ''Le sens des attitudes'', 1904 &ndash; Sensory dispositions.
* ''La voix, sa culture physiologique; théorie nouvelle de la phonation'', 1907 &ndash; The voice, its physiological culture (new theory of [phonation](/source/phonation)).  
* ''L'action directe sur les centres nerveux: centrothérapie'', 1913 &ndash; Direct action on the nerve centers, centrotherapy.<ref>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Bonnier,Pierre,1861-1918.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library] (published works)</ref>
* ''Défense organique et centres nerveux'', 1914 &ndash; Organic defense and nerve centers.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2014-120282/ Most widely held works about Pierre Bonnier] WorldCat Identities</ref>

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