Jean-Louis Prévost (May 12, 1838 - September 12, 1927) was a Swiss

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and physiologist who was a native of

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. He studied at Zurich,

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and

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, and in 1864 became an interne in

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under

Alfred Vulpian Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian (5 January 1826 – 18 May 1887) was a French physician and neurologist. He was the co-discoverer of Vulpian-Bernhardt spinal muscular atrophy and the Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon. Vulpian was born in Par ...

(1826–1887). After earning his medical doctorate at Paris in 1868, he returned to his hometown of Geneva, where he maintained a laboratory with Augustus Volney Waller (1816–1870). In 1876 he became a professor of

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at the

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, and in 1897 succeeded

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(1823–1896) as professor of physiology, a position he held until 1913. Two of his better known students at Geneva were

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(1849–1917) and Paul Charles Dubois (1848–1918). Prévost is credited with introducing modern medical physiological practices at Geneva, and was the author of over sixty books and articles. While still a student, he co-authored with Jules Cotard (1840–1887), a work on

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called ''Etudes physiologiques et pathologiques sur le ramollissment cérébral''. With

Jacques-Louis Reverdin Jaques-Louis Reverdin (28 August 1842 – 9 January 1929) was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Cologny. He studied at the University of Paris, becoming an interne of hospitals in 1865. In 1869 he became an assistant to Jean Casimir Félix G ...

(1848–1929) and Constant-Edouard Picot (1844–1931), he founded the journal ''Revue médicale de la Suisse''.

Associated eponym

* Prévost's law: Medical sign ( Déviation conjuguée) involving unilateral

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lesions, where the head is rotated toward the diseased hemisphere. * Note: He is not to be confused with Jean-Louis Prévost (1790–1850), a

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and a distant relative.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prevost, Jean-Louis Swiss physiologists Swiss neuroscientists Swiss neurologists 1838 births 1927 deaths Academic staff of the University of Geneva Physicians from Geneva