Fourfour du petit biography of rory

He enrolled at the University of Montpellier in and received his medical degree from that university in It is not known how he supported himself before he graduated.

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It is said that he met a man named Blondin, a distinguished amateur, who gave Pourfour access to his library and encouraged him to get a medical education. He joined the army in Flanders in and in , after the peace in Ryswyk, he worked as a physician in various military hospitals. It was during this war service that he carried out some of his most important physiological investigations.

After the Peace of Utrecht in he returned to Paris and established himself as an eye specialist. In at Namur he showed that the origin of the sympathetic nerve was not the cranium. After many observations and post-mortem dissections, the results of which he confirmed on dogs, he concluded that the movements of a limb are effected by animal spirits supplied by the side of the brain opposite the limb and that paralysis is complete only after the destruction of the contralateral corpus striatum.

Through brilliant experiments on dogs, he showed that whatever the site of superficial origin of the sympathetic chain, it was not in the cranium.

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Thus he demolished the erroneous view that the sympathetic system was an outflow of one of the cranial nerves. It is remarkable that, although his results were definitive, they were largely ignored until the nineteenth century. He started his career as an actor, but later donned many hats - screenwriter, producer, author etc. Between and he served for extended periods as a physician in the armies of Louis XIV.