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The trauma of World War I had a lasting impact on clinician and physiologist
Jules Tinel (1879-1952). His treatment of peripheral nervous system injuries led
him, in 1917, to describe the eponymous sign that he linked to activity of the
sympathetic nervous system. Among the sequelae of nerve injuries, he was
confronted with causalgia that he attributed, here again, to the autonomic
nervous system, the main focus of his laboratory research throughout his career.
Tinel's sign became so well known that it eclipsed the originality of his seminal
descriptions of exertional headache and of hypertensive emergency caused by
pheochromocytoma, which could also have been associated with his name. He was
always able to marry his clinical practice of neurology and psychiatric
consultations with his anatomicopathological, physiological and
pathophysiological research, which was based on his daily practice as a
physician. At the same time, he directed the work of numerous assistants in his
research laboratory, which has since been unjustly forgotten. Several hundreds of
scientific publications, including three seminal works, bear witness to his
intense activity, which he combined with a genuine talent for teaching and making
his findings accessible to a wider public. Those publications alone would fully
justify the historical value of extending his renown beyond the existing eponym.
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