Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science
ABSTRACT Duchenne de Boulogne is known mainly by the disease eponymously named “Duchenne muscular dystrophy”, or pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, although some experts consider that the original description of this disease does not belong to him. Less well known are the facts related to the tr...
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| author | Péricles MARANHÃO-FILHO Maurice VINCENT |
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| description | ABSTRACT Duchenne de Boulogne is known mainly by the disease eponymously named “Duchenne muscular dystrophy”, or pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, although some experts consider that the original description of this disease does not belong to him. Less well known are the facts related to the tragic death of his beloved wife shortly after the birth of his only child, the unjustifiable distance he was forced to keep from this son for more than 30 years, and of being humiliated and professionally despised by his peers. These events made the life of this physician, physiologist, researcher and inventor extremely arduous. We emphasize some aspects of the history of this man, his work and his life, a true genius of few friends. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e62b0d67164c4dcf9ff97ea1575d1e202022-12-22T01:47:07ZengAcademia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-422777644244410.1590/0004-282x20190044S0004-282X2019000600442Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to sciencePéricles MARANHÃO-FILHOMaurice VINCENTABSTRACT Duchenne de Boulogne is known mainly by the disease eponymously named “Duchenne muscular dystrophy”, or pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, although some experts consider that the original description of this disease does not belong to him. Less well known are the facts related to the tragic death of his beloved wife shortly after the birth of his only child, the unjustifiable distance he was forced to keep from this son for more than 30 years, and of being humiliated and professionally despised by his peers. These events made the life of this physician, physiologist, researcher and inventor extremely arduous. We emphasize some aspects of the history of this man, his work and his life, a true genius of few friends.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2019000600442&lng=en&tlng=enDuchenne de Boulogneelectrophysiologymuscular dystrophy |
| spellingShingle | Péricles MARANHÃO-FILHO Maurice VINCENT Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria Duchenne de Boulogne electrophysiology muscular dystrophy |
| title | Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science |
| title_full | Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science |
| title_fullStr | Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science |
| title_full_unstemmed | Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science |
| title_short | Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne: a miserable life dedicated to science |
| title_sort | guillaume benjamin duchenne a miserable life dedicated to science |
| topic | Duchenne de Boulogne electrophysiology muscular dystrophy |
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