biography
| name: |
Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand
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pronunciation:
[düshen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1806–75)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Boulogne, NW France. He studied at Douai and Paris, became a pioneer in electrophysiology, and was the founder of electrotherapeutics. He was the first to describe locomotor ataxia, in 1858. |
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