Paul Loye
Paul Loye (1861–1890) was a French physician and "préparateur" for various physiological courses at the Sorbonne in the 1880s. His greatest contribution lay in his observations on the functions and organization of the brain and nervous system.[1]
As a medical graduate student in
reflex action. This confirmed the less-refined observations of Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde
who had experimented upon decapitated human heads in the early 1880s.
Almost nothing is known of Loye's personal life. He once served as an assistant to the physiologist
executions
in Paris and the north of France. Loye had arrived as a student at the Sorbonne from a rural area southwest of Paris, and died shortly after completing his 1886 doctoral dissertation.
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References
- ^ Autour d'un conte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam:" Le Secret de l'Échafaud" P Reboul - Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, 1949 - JSTOR "... Si enfin la librairie Flammarion pu- blie, en 1888, une édition du Secret (pour 60 centimes), c'est que s'étaient multipliées les expériences faites par des savants ou des médecins sur des cadavres de décapités, expériences qui permettaient à Paul Loye la publication de son ... "
- Paul Loye (1889). "Death by Decapitation". .
- Alex Boese (2007). Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments. ISBN 9780156031356. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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