Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Raymond de Vieussens

    Jeremy ParkerChicago, Illinois, United States Raymond de Vieussens, the great French physician and pioneer of anatomic work in neurology and cardiology, was born in the village of Vieussens in Rouvergue (c.1635-1641). His father, a lieutenant colonel in the French army, was possibly a bourgeois of Vigan.1,2 Little is known about Vieussens’ upbringing, except that he…