Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (often translated as Brierre de Boismont in English) (October 18, 1797 – December 25, 1881) was a French physician and psychiatrist who was a native of Rouen. In 1825 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, and afterwards was a physician at a nursing home in Sainte-Colombe.

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  • Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (often translated as Brierre de Boismont in English) (October 18, 1797 – December 25, 1881) was a French physician and psychiatrist who was a native of Rouen. In 1825 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, and afterwards was a physician at a nursing home in Sainte-Colombe. In 1831 he performed important studies of a cholera epidemic in Poland, and in 1838 became director of a private nursing home on Rue Neuve Sainte-Genevieve, located near the Panthéon de Paris. Beginning in 1859 he practiced medicine in Saint-Mande. Brière de Boismont was the author of numerous publications in several medical fields, including hygiene, forensic medicine and anatomy, but is best known for his work in psychiatry. In 1845 he published Des Hallucinations, ou Histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme, which was a landmark study of hallucinations, of which he considered were a significant part of mankind's psychological history. This book was later translated into English as "On Hallucinations: Or, the Rational History of Apparitions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism". In 1856 he published a comprehensive study on suicide titled Du suicide et de la folie suicide, and with Jules Baillarger (1809-1890) and others, was co-editor of Annales médico-psychologique. In 1862, Brière de Boismont provided an early description of what would later become known as Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS).
  • Alexandre-Jacques-François Brière de Boismont, né le 18 octobre 1797 à Rouen, mort le 25 décembre 1881 à Saint-Mandé, est un médecin psychiatre français.
  • Alexandre Jacques François Brierre de Boismont, född 18 oktober 1797 i Rouen, död 25 december 1881 i S:t Mandé vid Paris, fransk läkare. Brierre de Boismont var en av Frankrikes mest betydande hospitalsläkare och bidrog genom ett stort antal skrifter på ett mycket framstående sätt till psykiatrins utveckling. Han grundade 1834 i Paris en anstalt för sinnessjuka och var nära ett halvt århundrade en av denna stads mest anlitade psykiatrer. Bland hans större psykiatriska arbeten är Des hallucinations ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions des visions, des songes, etc. (1845, flera upplagor) och Du suicide et de la folie-suicide (1855) de viktigaste. Han hade även stort intresse för rättspsykiatrin. Under sina tidigare år hade Brierre de Boismont dessutom författat en mängd skrifter inom andra grenar av medicinen, såsom Relation historique et médicale du choléra-morbus du Pologne (1831), för vilken han av Institut de France erhöll en guldmedalj och av franska regeringen uppdraget att i Polen studera denna sjukdom.
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  • Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (often translated as Brierre de Boismont in English) (October 18, 1797 – December 25, 1881) was a French physician and psychiatrist who was a native of Rouen. In 1825 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, and afterwards was a physician at a nursing home in Sainte-Colombe.
  • Alexandre-Jacques-François Brière de Boismont, né le 18 octobre 1797 à Rouen, mort le 25 décembre 1881 à Saint-Mandé, est un médecin psychiatre français.
  • Alexandre Jacques François Brierre de Boismont, född 18 oktober 1797 i Rouen, död 25 december 1881 i S:t Mandé vid Paris, fransk läkare. Brierre de Boismont var en av Frankrikes mest betydande hospitalsläkare och bidrog genom ett stort antal skrifter på ett mycket framstående sätt till psykiatrins utveckling. Han grundade 1834 i Paris en anstalt för sinnessjuka och var nära ett halvt århundrade en av denna stads mest anlitade psykiatrer.
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  • Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont
  • Alexandre Brière de Boismont
  • Alexandre Brierre de Boismont
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