Ernest Barthez

Dr. Barthez

Antoine Charles Ernest Barthez (1811-1891) most well known as Dr. Barthez was a French physician.

Barthez produced three volumes on children's diseases with Frédéric Rilliet (1814-1861).^[1] He was influential in the study of child neurology.^[2][3]

He was the grandnephew of the distinguished physician Paul Joseph Barthez.^[4] Barthez worked as a physician at the court of Napoleon III and Eugénie de Montijo. In 1912, posthumous letters from Barthez were made public in a book translated by Bernard Miall. One letter caused controversy as it alleged that the medium Daniel Dunglas Home was caught using his foot to fake supposed spirit effects during a séance in Biarritz in 1857.^[5][6]

Publications

• Treatise on the Pneumonia of Children (1841)
• Traite clinique et pratique des maladies des enfants (3 volumes, 1843)
• The Empress Eugénie and Her Circle (English edition by T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Also published in New York: Brentano's, 1913).

References

1. Harry W. Paul. (2011). Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater. Ashgate. p. 145. ISBN 978-1409405153
2. Ashwal, Stephen. (1990). The Founders of Child Neurology. Norman Publishing. p. 483. ISBN 0-930405-26-9
3. Finger, Stanley. (2013). Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders. Elsevier. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-444-63364-4
4. Brennemann, Joseph; McQuarrie, Irvine. (1948). Practice of Pediatrics. W.F. Prior. p. 25
5. Stein, Gordon. (1993). The Sorcerer of Kings: The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and William Crookes. Prometheus Books. pp. 99-101. ISBN 0-87975-863-5
6. Lamont, Peter. (2005). The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard. Abacus. pp. 90-94. ISBN 0-349-11825-6