Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont 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 Sainte-Genevieve, located near the Panthéon de Paris. Beginning in 1859, he practiced medicine in Saint-Mande. Brière de Boismont was the author of numerous publications in several medical fields, that included hygiene, forensic medicine and anatomy, ...
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