Joseph Jules Dejerine practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Joseph Jules Dejerine as French neurologist (1849–1917).
Joseph Jules Dejerine was born at Geneva in 1849. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Paris Medical Faculty.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Bicêtre Hospital and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Joseph Jules Dejerine died in 1917, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Held posts at Bicêtre Hospital and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
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