Frédéric Dubois d'Amiens (17 February 1799, in

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

– 10 January 1873, in Paris) was a French physician and historian of medicine. He studied medicine in Amiens and Paris. In 1828 he received his medical doctorate and in 1832 obtained his

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. In 1847 he succeeded

Étienne Pariset Étienne Pariset (5 August 1770, in Grand – 3 July 1847, in Paris) was a French physician and psychiatrist. In 1805 he received his medical doctorate in Paris with the thesis ''Dissertation sur les hémorrhagies utérines'' ("Dissertation o ...

as perpetual secretary at the

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Selected works

* ''Histoire philosophique de l'hypochondrie et de l'hystérie'', 1833 – Philosophical history of

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and

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. * ''Examen historique et raisonné des expériences prétendues magnétiques'', 1833 – Historical and reasoned examination of the alleged magnetic experiments. * ''Traité de pathologie générale'', 1835 – Treatise on general pathology. * ''Traité des études médicales, ou de la manière d'étudier et d'enseigner la médecine'', 1838 – Treatise on medical studies, or how to study and teach medicine. * ''Histoire académique du magnétisme animal'' (with Claude Burdin, 1841) – Academic history of

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. * ''Philosophie medicale. Examen des doctrines de Cabanis et de Gall'', 1845 – Medical philosophy. Examination of the doctrines of Pierre Jean George Cabanis and

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. * ''Éloges lus dans les séances publiques de l'Académie de médecine (1845-1863)'', 1864 – Eulogies read in public meetings of the Academy of Medicine (1845–1863). * ''Recherches sur le genre de mort de J.J. Rousseau'', 1866 – Research involving the death of

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. He wrote the eulogies of several French physicians and scientists;

Mathieu Orfila Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila ( Catalan: ''Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger'') (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Role in forensic toxicology If t ...

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, Louis Jacques Thénard, et al.Dubois, Frédéric (1797-1873); numerous eulogies
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