17941867 French anatomist and physiologist who clarified some important functions of the brain, cerebellum and medulla.
Keywords: neurophysiology; phrenology; Ménière; chloroform
Régis Olry, University of Quebec at Trois‐Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002516
17941867 French anatomist and physiologist who clarified some important functions of the brain, cerebellum and medulla.
Keywords: neurophysiology; phrenology; Ménière; chloroform
| Further Reading | |
| book Flourens P (1824) Recherches expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du système nerveux, dans les animaux vertébrés. Paris: Crevot. | |
| Flourens P (1828) Expériences sur les canaux semi-circulaires de l'oreille chez les oiseaux. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 15: 113124. | |
| Flourens P (1847) Note touchant l'action de léther sur les centres nerveux. Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris) 24: 340344. | |
| book Clarke E and Dewhurst K (1984) Histoire illustrée de la fonction cérébrale. Paris: Roger Dacosta. | |
| book Hirsch A (ed.) (1885) Biographisches Lexicon der hervorragenden Aerzte aller Zeiten und Völker, vol. 2, pp. 388389. Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg. | |
| book Norman JM (ed.) (1991) Morton's Medical Bibliography, 5th edn. Aldershot: Scolar Press. | |
| book Olmsted JMD (1953) "Pierre Flourens". In: Underwood EA (ed.) Science, Medicine and History. Essays in Honor of Charles Singer, vol. 2, pp. 290302. London: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Pagel J (1901) Biographisches Lexicon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, cols. 521522. Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg. | |
| Saint-Restitut C (1990) Pierre Flourens. Pionnier de la physiologie cérébrale (17941867). Gazette Médicale 97(12): 6971. | |
| Tizard B (1959) Theories of brain localization from Flourens to Lashley. Medicine History 3: 132145. | |