title: [Notes on the history of Duchenne's disease].
abstract: The author shows by citations from Paul Broca, Duchenne (de Boulogne) and other authors that the first description of myopathias has been given in 1847 by P. Broca at the Société anatomique and that he had correctly interpreted their muscular (and not nervous) origin.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Monod-Broca
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Note sur l'histoire de la maladie de Duchenne.