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THE centenary of the death of François Emmanuel Fodere, who was born on January 8, 1764, is to be celebrated on April 12 at Strasbourg, where he was professor of medical jurisprudence from 1814 until 1834. His “Traite de medecine legale et d'hygiene publique ou de police sanitaire”, of which the first edition was published in 1798 and the second in 1813, was the standard work in medical jurisprudence in France during the early part of the last century. In 1819 he was appointed lecturer in the history of epidemic diseases and hygiene at Strasbourg, his lectures being afterwards published in four volumes in 1822–24. His other works included “Traite du goitre et du cretinisme, precede d'un discours sur Pinfluence de l'air humide sur l'entendement humain” (1790), “Essai historique et moral sur la pauvrete des nations, la population, la mendicite, les hopitaux et les enfants trouves” (1825), “Recherches sur la nature, les causes et le traitement du Cholera-morbus” (1831) and “Essai sur les diverses especes de folie” (1832).
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François Emmanuel Fodéré. Nature 135, 575 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135575b0
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