Jean marc gaspard itard biography of christopher

          Itard, J. M. G. The wild boy of Aveyron....

          Eventually, his case was taken up by a young physician, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who worked with the boy for five years and gave him his name, Victor.

        1. Itard's paper, written while he was Chief Physician at the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris, demonstrates his empiricist approach to medicine.
        2. Itard, J. M. G. The wild boy of Aveyron.
        3. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard was born on April 24, Itard was originally marked for the banking profession, but, when the French Revolution.
        4. The wild child, named Victor by the doctors, is being trained by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, one of the famous doctors and trainers of the period.

          5. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

          French physician (–)

          Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (24 April , Oraison, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence&#;– 5 July , Paris) was a French physician born in Provence.[1] He is perhaps best known for his work with Victor of Aveyron.

          Biography

          Itard, without a university education and working at a bank, was forced to enter the army during the French Revolution, but presented himself as a physician at that time.[2] After successfully working as an assistant physician at a military hospital in Soliers, in , he was appointed deputy surgeon at Val-de-Grâce (Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce) military hospital in Paris, and in [citation needed], physician at the National Institution for Deaf Mutes.

          René Laennec

          In Paris, Itard was a student of distinguished physician René Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope (in ). Laennec was a few years younger but had a formal education at the university at Nantes and later became