French school and World War First: neurological consequences of a frightening time

French school and World War First: neurological consequences of a frightening time.

Some aspects of a dark period in the history of the modern neurology, that of the World War I (WWI), are here remembered, mainly by the neurological French School participation . Some personalities and their works related to the WWI are presented such as Joseph Babinski, Jules Froment, Clovis Vincent, Jules Joseph Dejerine, Augusta Déjérine-Klumpke, Jules Tinel, Pierre Marie, Achille Alexandre ...

French Neurologists during World War I.

The Great War accelerated the development of neurological knowledge. Many neurological signs and syndromes, as well as new nosological entities such as war psychoneuroses, were described during the conflict. The period between 1914 and 1918 was the first time in which many neurologists were concentrated in wartime neurology centres and confronted with a number of neurological patients never see...

A pilot in the first world war.

Health consequences of the first Persian Gulf War on French troops.

Since 1993, many studies on the health of Persian Gulf War Veterans (PGWV) have been undertaken. These studies have concluded that there has been an increased mortality due to external causes, no excess of recognized diseases, and no effect on PGWV children. When compared with the non-deployed, PGWV have reported a higher frequency of infertility as well as different symptoms, but a specific Gu...

The formation fields and consequences of the first World Carpet Exhibition in Austria

In the second half of the nineteenth century, coinciding with the extensive cultural and economic developments in the West, the first World Exhibition of Oriental Handmade Carpets was held in the Austrian Empire. Regarding to the importance of carpets in the political and economic life of Iran in that period, the purpose of this study is to identify the fields of formation and results of the ex...