Paul Oulmont

Paul Oulmont (April 21, 1849 – November 3, 1917) was a French neurologist and a noted art collector.

Oulmont was born April 21, 1849 in Épinal, France, the son of Charles Oulmont (1819–1875) and Mathilde Lehmann (1827–c.1875). In 1878 he married Louise Julie Emerique. He bestowed an important collection of drawings to his native town of Épinal.[1] Oulmont received his medical degree in 1873 and was appointed Jean-Martin Charcot's house officer in 1877. In 1878 he defended his thesis on athetosis, closely followed by papers which included the first description of double athetosis. Although athetosis was known as "Hammond's disease," after William Alexander Hamilton ( 1828-1900), Oulmont presented a much earlier description written in 1853 by his mentor, Charcot, who classified the disorder as a form of chorea.[2] Oulmont's name is associated with a number of disorders including diabetic neuropathy, Mercury toxicity in tics, and facial hemiplegia.[2]

He died November 3, 1917 in Paris.

Works by Oulmont
  • Étude clinique sur l'athétose, Paris, 1878
  • Athetosis. In: Monthly Abstract of Medical Science 1878 ; vol. 5, p. 391–392.
  • De l’athétose. In: Revue Mensuelle de Medicine et de Chirurgie. 1878 ; vol. 2, p. 81–94.
  • Thérapeutique des névroses, Paris, O. Doin, 1894, reissued in 1910
  • L'Obésité, symptomatologique et étiologique, anatomie et physiologie pathologique, Paris, O. Doin, 1907, (in collaboration with Félix Ramond)

Honours

A room at the Bichat Hospital was named in his honor in 1931.

Notes
  1. Jérôme Delaplanche, Isabelle Chave (2007). La Collection Oulmont. Le goût de la grâce et du joli. Dessins, peintures et pastels du XVIIIe siècle. Vosges, France: Musée départemental d’art ancien et contemporain. ISBN 2912395119.
  2. O. (Brou) Walusinski (2011). "Jean-Martin Charcot's house officers at la Salpêtrière Hospital". Following Charcot: A Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry. Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience. 29. Basel Switzerland: Reinhardt Druck. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-8055-9556-8.
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