Jules Sottas

Jules Sottas (22 May 1866, Paris 18 September 1945, Paris) was a French neurologist.[1]

He studied medicine in Paris, and worked in the laboratories at the Hospice de Bicêtre and the Salpêtrière. In 1894 he received his doctorate in medicine. In Paris, he was an assistant to neurologist Joseph Jules Dejerine, with whom he collaborated on a number of studies, the best known being the eponymous "Dejerine-Sottas syndrome".[2] The following are a list of various medical papers published by Dejerine and Sottas:

Among his solo efforts, he published a study on syphilytic spinal paralysis, titled Contribution à l’étude anatomique et clinique des paralysies spinales syphilitiques (1894).[3] In addition to his neurological research, Sottas was the author of several works with historical themes, the following being a few of his better known writings in this field:

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