Antoine Charles Ernest Barthez (1811-1891) most well known as Dr. Barthez was a French

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. Barthez produced three volumes on children's diseases with

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(1814-1861). He was influential in the study of child

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. He was the grandnephew of the distinguished physician

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. Barthez worked as a physician at the court of

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and

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. In 1912, posthumous letters from Barthez were made public in a book translated by

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. One letter caused controversy as it alleged that the medium

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was caught using his foot to fake supposed spirit effects during a séance in

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in 1857. Lamont, Peter. (2005). ''The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard''. Abacus. pp. 90-94.

Publications

*''Treatise on the Pneumonia of Children'' (1841) *''Traite clinique et pratique des maladies des enfants'' (3 volumes, 1843)
''The Empress Eugénie and Her Circle''
(English edition by T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Also published in New York: Brentano's, 1913).

References

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