Le reflexe pilomoteur. Etude anatomo-clinique sur le systeme sympathique.

Paris:: Masson, 1921., 1921. 266 x 179 mm. 8vo. vii, v, 242 pp. 74 figs., 12 plates in color and black and white, bibliog. Printed wrappers; extremities faded, foot of spine chipped, else very good. FIRST EDITION. In 1917, at the age of fifty, the direction of Andre-Thomas's research was greatly influenced by the seriously wounded soldiers he saw and cared for. He began to study, in depth, cerebral and spinal injury correlating anatomic verification with functional recuperation. This work traces Andre-Thomas's work on nervous reflexes. Andre-Thomas was a student of Dejerine. His thesis, the first book dedicated to the study of the normal and pathological cerebellum, was published in 1897. Andre-Thomas wrote some 150 articles, chapters, and several books and was "hailed unanimously . . . in the French Neurological Society as the neurological master of his generation." "From 1911 to 1932 Andre-Thomas directed the neurological services of the private Hopital St. Joseph" where many famous neurologists came to study, including George Guillain, T. Alajouanine, and Raymond Garcin. See: Serge Duckett, "Andre-Thomas (1867-1963)," in Journal of Neurology, Vol. 247, pp. 235-236.