Quotes:Vulpian, Edme-Felix-Alfred

Zirkoff, Boris

Vulpian, Edme-Felix-Alfred. French physician, b. at Paris, Jan. 5, 1826; d. there May 18, 1887. Entered the Bureau Central, 1857, and the Agrégation, 1860. Substituted for Flourens at the Museum for three years. Appointed, 1867, Prof, of pathological anatomy at the Faculté de Médecine, and to the chair of comparative and experimental pathology in 1872. Dean of the Faculté, 1875. Member of the Institut, 1876. Made numerous discoveries in the domain of anatomy, physiology of nervous system and experimental pathology. Author of: Leçcons sur la physiologie générale et comparative du système nerveux, Paris, 1866.—Maladies du système nerveux, Paris, 1879. 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 548