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Jean-Andre Rochoux (1787-1852) can be considered the author, in 1812, of the
first clinical and neuropathological description of cerebral hemorrhage and
ischemia, based on concepts that underlie current vascular neurology. His
biography reveals how his thinking was shaped by materialist philosophy, which
was also the basis of his rigorous scientific reasoning.
Due to his intransigent
defence of his philosophical ideas and his outspoken anticlericalism, he was
often contradicted and had many opponents who were not inclined to perpetuate his
memory after his death, despite the high quality of his medical research. Our
biography traces the career of this iconoclastic thinker and physician ahead of
his time.
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