Marie

MARIE Pierre (Pierre Marie, b. 1853), outstanding French neurologist, student of Broca and Charcot. Graduated from the Paris Medical Faculty in 1883. M. is the author of a great number of works. Many of them contain detailed descriptions and research on the pathogenesis of a number of important symptom complexes, performed for the first time by M. Acromegaly (1886), osteo-arthropathie hypertrophique pneumique (1890) and hereditary cerebellar ataxia (1893) entered the literature, especially French, under the name of Marie's diseases. In 1906, M. subjected Broca's theory of aphasia (see) to serious criticism. During the world war, M. worked on issues of gunshot wounds to the nervous system. A major contribution by Marie is the founding, together with Brissaud (E. Brissaud), of the journal 'Revue neurologique' (P., since 1893), which currently has international significance; M. is still its editor. The most important works of M., besides his dissertation ('Contribution à l'étude et au diagnostic des formes frustes de la maladie de Basedow', thesis, P., 1883), are collected in the book: P. Marie, 'Travaux et mémoires' (v. I-II, P., 1926-28). In 1922, under the editorship of M., the collection 'Questions neurologiques d'actualité' (P.) was published, bringing together 20 of the most prominent French neurologists. Since 1911, M. has been a member of the French Academy of Medicine. M. is the founder and honorary member of the Society of Neurologists in Paris.