Duchenne de Boulogne

Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne ( born September 17, 1806 Boulogne -sur -Mer, † September 15, 1875 in Paris) was a French physiologist.

He studied medicine in Paris in 1831 and returned back to his hometown. Since 1833, he used electricity as the new medical form of treatment. In 1842 he again went to Paris to explore the development of electrotherapy him on.

He was attracted by electric current through electrodes on the face of different facial muscles and wrote about this " Electrophysiological analysis of expression of emotion " in human physiognomy in 1862 in Paris, a fundamental work. His " muscle of Joy", which is responsible for the smile that later became the musculus zygomaticus major ( Big zygomatic muscle, see Lach muscles). The real smile is named after him Duchenne smile.

He is the discoverer of the hereditary Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which leads to a progressive loss of muscle tissue.

Works

• Essai sur la brûlure ( 1833)
• De l' Électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiology, pathology et à la à la thérapeutique (1855 )
• Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyze électro - physiologique de l' expression des passions applicable à la pratique des arts plastiques (1862 )
• Physiology of Movements démontrée à l'aide de l' Expérimentation électrique et de l' observation clinique et à l' étude of the applicable paralysies et of the deformation (1867 )

• Physiologist
• Physician (19th century)
• Frenchman
• Born in 1806
• Died in 1875
• Man