Albert Pitres

Who was Albert Pitres?

Albert Pitres was a French neurological physician. He was born in Bordeaux and received his training in Paris, where he was the student of Jean Martin Charcot and Louis-Antoine Ranvier. He was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux.

He began his medical studies in Bordeaux, later working as an interne to the hospitals of Paris. In 1877 he defended his doctoral thesis, and during the following year received his agrégation with a dissertation titled "Les hypertrophies et les dilatations cardiaques indépendante des lésions valvulaires". Later he returned to Bordeaux, where from 1881 to 1919, he was maître to the chair of pathology. Pitres died in 1928 at the age of 79 after falling down stairs.

Lessons that Pitres gave in the amphitheater on the following subjects were compiled and published: hysteria and hypnotism, amnesic aphasia, paraphasia and physical signs associated with pleural effusions. His studies of peripheral neuritis were published in Volume XXXVI of Gilbert and Carnot's "Nouveau traité de médeine et de thérapeutique". With Leo Testut, he was co-author of "Les nerfs en schémas, anatomie et physiopathologie".