First name
Ernest-Charles
Last name
Lasègue
Date of birth
September 05, 1816
Date of death
March 20, 1883
Bio
This French physician lent his name to a sign associated with the diagnosis of sciatic nerve inflammation, but his psychiatric contributions were in the areas of anorexia nervosa, persecutory delusions, conversion and folie à deux.
Credit
Portrait courtesy of Jacques Corraze, MD, PhD