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World War I (1914-1918), however tragic, was nonetheless an "edifying school of
nervous system experimental pathology" not only because of the various types of
injuries, but also because their numbers were greater than any physician could
have foreseen. The peripheral nervous system, the spine and the brain were all to
benefit from the subsequent advances in clinical and anatomo-functional
knowledge. Neurosurgeons took on nerve sutures, spinal injury exploration, and
the localization and extraction of intracranial foreign bodies. Little by little,
physical medicine and rehabilitation were established.
A few of the most famous
Parisian neurologists at the time-Jules and Augusta Dejerine, Pierre Marie,
Joseph Babinski and Georges Guillain, who directed the military neurology
centers-took up the physically and emotionally exhausting challenge of treating
thousands of wounded soldiers. They not only cared for them, but also studied
them scientifically, with the help of a small but devoted band of colleagues. The
examples presented here reveal their courage and their efforts to make
discoveries for which we remain grateful today.
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