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Oct 14, 1804 Garennes sur Eure, Normandy, France Died on 05 Jun 1893 (aged 88)
French psychiatrist
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About Louis Delasiauve
- Louis Jean François Delasiauve (October 14, 1804, Garennes-sur-Eure – June 5, 1893, Paris) was a French psychiatrist. In 1830 he earned his doctorate in Paris, and for the next eight years practiced medicine in Ivry-la-Bataille.
- Afterwards he worked at the Bicêtre Hospital, and later became a director at the Salpêtrière, where he worked with epileptic and mentally handicapped patients.
- One of his better known assistants was Désiré-Magloire Bourneville (1840–1909). Delasiauve was a pioneer of child psychiatry, and an advocate of education for the mentally handicapped.
- He is best known for his research of epilepsy, being credited for describing three distinct types of the disease: Idiopathic epilepsy: Absence of physical lesions; fundamentally a true neurotic disorder. Symptomatic epilepsy: Cerebral lesions being present; convulsions being a symptom and not the disease. Sympathetic epilepsy: Produced by the irradiation of abnormal impressions which can have their seat in all parts of the body except the central nervous system.His book Traité de l'épilepsie; histoire, traitement, médecine légale was translated into German by anatomist Friedrich Wilhelm Theile as Die Epilepsie (1855).
