Jules Tinel

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Jules Tinel
Charles Emile Troisier

Arnold Netter

Jules Tinel (1879 in

neurologist remembered for describing Tinel's sign.[1]

Biography

Jules Tinel was born in 1879 into a family with a five generation history of medical professionals. He studied in Rouen before moving to Paris. He became externe des hôpitaul in 1901 and

Charles Emile Troisier, Joseph Jules Dejerine, Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy, and Arnold Netter, and was inspired to study neurology by Dejerine. He received his M.D. in 1910 with a thesis on nerve involvement of tabes which came from work done with Dejerine, Landouzy, and Laennec. He became chef de clinique in 1911 and chief of the laboratory at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
in 1913.

In 1914 he was called up, and became head of the neurological centre at

heart disease
, but returned to work after a few months.

During the Second World War Tinel was active in the

Mittelbau-Dora
where he died.

After his retirement in 1945 Tinel continued to work in Boucicaut. In 1947 he had an episode of aphasia which recovered after some weeks, and he returned to work. He died in 1952 of heart failure.[6]

Brincourt concluded his fine eulogy this way: ‘‘His indefatigable devotion, his goodness and his selflessness were only known to his patients. His modesty and dislike of public gatherings prevented his work from having the dissemination it deserved. The medical corps was unaware of his merit’’[7]

References

  1. Who Named It?
  2. ^ Tinel, J. (1915) Le signe du fourmillement dans les lésions des nerfs périphériques. Presse médicale, 47, 388–389
  3. ^ Tinel, J. (1978) The "tingling sign" in peripheral nerve lesions (Translated by EB Kaplan). In: M. Spinner M (Ed.), Injuries to the Ma jor Branches of Peripheral Nerves of the Forearm. (2nd ed.) (pp 8–13). Philadelphia: WD Saunders Co
  4. ^ Tinel, J. Les blessures des nerfs. Paris: Masson, 1916
  5. ^ Tinel, J. Nerve wounds. London: Baillère, Tindall and Cox, 1917
  6. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
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  7. ISSN 0035-3787
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