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A Brierre De Boismont
📅 1809 – 1890
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Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (often translated as Brierre de Boismont in English) (18 October 1797 – 25 December 1881) was a French physician and psychiatrist born in Rouen.
In 1825 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, afterwards working as a physician at the nursing home of Mme Marcel Sainte-Colombe, Rue de Picpus, Paris. In 1831 he performed important studies of a cholera epidemic in Poland, and in 1838 was appointed director of a private nursing home on Rue Neuve Saint…