Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Rouen, Normandy, France
About Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont
- Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (often translated as Brierre de Boismont in English) (October 18, 1797 – December 25, 1881) was a French physician and psychiatrist born in Rouen. In 1825 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, afterwards working as a physician at the nursing home of Mme Marcel Sainte-Colombe, Rue de Picpus, Paris.
- In 1831 he performed important studies of a cholera epidemic in Poland, and in 1838 was appointed director of a private nursing home on Rue Neuve Sainte-Genevieve, located near the Panthéon de Paris.
- Beginning in 1859, he practiced medicine in Saint-Mandé. Brière de Boismont was the author of numerous publications in several medical fields, that included hygiene, forensic medicine and anatomy, but is best known for his work in psychiatry.
- In 1845 he published Des Hallucinations, ou Histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme, a landmark study of hallucinations, of which he considered were a significant part of mankind's psychological history.
- This book was later translated into English as Hallucinations: or, The rational history of apparitions, dreams, ecstasy, magnetism, and somnambulism (1853). In 1856 he published a comprehensive study on suicide, titled Du suicide et de la folie suicide.
- With Jules Baillarger (1809-1890) and others, he was co-editor of Annales médico-psychologique.
- In 1862, Brière de Boismont provided an early description of what would later become known as Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS).
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