Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Chapter Twenty Seven Charles Foix
- Chapter Twenty Eight Houston Merritt and Charles Aring
- Chapter Twenty Nine C. Miller Fisher
- Chapter Thirty Louis Caplan
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Twenty Seven - Charles Foix
from Some Key Physicians
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Chapter Twenty Seven Charles Foix
- Chapter Twenty Eight Houston Merritt and Charles Aring
- Chapter Twenty Nine C. Miller Fisher
- Chapter Thirty Louis Caplan
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
Charles Foix was born in 1882 in Salies-de-Bearn, a small village in southern France where his father was a physician. Foix traveled from the provinces to Paris to study medicine and spent his entire medical career within the hospital systems of Paris at the Hotel-Dieu, Necker, Bicétre, and Salpêtrière [1–5].
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- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 251 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022