Gustave Bouchereau, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gustave Bouchereau

French psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1835

Date of Death: 22-Feb-1900

Profession: psychiatrist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Gustave Bouchereau

  • Louis Gustave Bouchereau (20 June 1835, Montrichard – 22 February 1900, Paris) was a French psychiatrist. He studied medicine in Paris, becoming a hospital externe in 1859, followed by an internship in 1863.
  • In Paris he had as instructors Jean-Pierre Falret, Jules Baillarger, Jean-Martin Charcot and Alfred Vulpian.
  • In 1866 he obtained his medical doctorate with a thesis on old hemiplegia, Des Hémiplégies anciennes.
  • Soon afterwards, he was co-appointed with Valentin Magnan (1835–1916) to the Sainte-Anne asylum in Paris.
  • In 1879 he succeeded Prosper Lucas (1805–1885) as superintendent of the women's division at Sainte-Anne.Bouchereau served in a field hospital during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • He was wounded at the Battle of Châtillon, subsequently being awarded with the badge of the Legion of Honour for gallantry and devotion.
  • In 1871 he became a member of the Société Médico-Psychologique of Paris, being elected its president in 1891.
  • For many years he served as general secretary of the Association mutuelle des médecins aliénistes de France.

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