| Babinski, of
French descent, had a thorough training in general medicine before
entering the study of neurology. His bibliography is lengthy beginning
with a treatise on typhoid fever (1882) and ending with a study on
hysteria (1930). He worked with the great in neurology in France to
include Charcot, Brissaud, Pierre Marie, Dejerine and others. He
described in 1903 the associated fanning of the toes which would later
be termed Babinski Sign. He also published on cerebrospinal syphilis,
cerebellar signs and symptoms such as asynergia adiadochokinesia, on
reflexes, on unilateral bulbar lesions and dystrophia adiposogenitalia. Babinski anticipated the neurosurgical era approaching France and of 2 of his favorite students- de Martel and Vincent he stated "I showed them the way to found French neurosurgery." |
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