DEJERINE-KLUMPKE, Augusta (1859 – 1927)
1859 – 1927
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1885
#4748
Contribution à l’étude des paralysies radiculaires du plexus brachial.
First description of atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the hand following lesion of the brachial plexus and eighth cervical and first dorsal nerves (“Klumpke’s paralysis”).
1889
#2100
Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.
Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.
1895 –1901
#1424
Anatomie des centres nerveux. 2 vols.
Classic summary of neuroanatomy at the end of the nineteenth century—comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and scholarly. It is a goldmine of historical information with an outstanding bibliography.