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Paul Pierre Broca

(June 28, 1824 – July 9, 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France.

Education and research

Broca was a brilliant student. He entered medical school in Paris when he was only 17 years old and graduated at 20, when most of his contemporaries were just beginning as medical students.

Broca soon became a professor of surgical pathology at the University of Paris. He quickly excelled as a noted medical researcher in many areas. At the age of 24 he had received many awards, medals, and important positions. His early scientific works dealt with the histology of cartilage and bone, but he also studied cancer pathology, the treatment of aneurysms, and infant mortality. One of his major concerns was the comparative anatomy of the brain. His celebrated paper refers to many animal species. As a

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Paul Broca

French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824–1880)

Pierre Paul Broca (,^[1]^[2]^[3]also, ,^[4]French:[pɔlbʁɔka]; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients with aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. This was the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function.

Broca's work contributed to the development of physical anthropology, advancing the science of anthropometry,^[5] and craniometry, in particular, the now-discredited practice of determining intelligence. He was engaged in comparative anatomy of primates and humans and proposed that Negroes were an intermediate form between apes and Europeans. He saw each racial group as its own species and believed racial mixing eventually led to sterility.

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Scientist of the Day - Paul Broca

Portrait of Paul Broca, photograph, undated, 1870s? (Wikimedia commons)

Paul Broca, a French physician, anatomist, pathologist, and physical anthropologist, was born June 28, 1824, in Bordeaux. He attended medical school in Paris, then worked his way up the medical ranks, serving as intern for various noted surgeons and anatomists at the Paris Medical School, including a term as prosector, demonstrating anatomical features in cadavers for lecturers in anatomy, before finally receiving his doctorate in medicine in 1849. He would spend most of his career on the faculty of the medical school of the University of Paris, but he was also associated with half-a-dozen hospitals in metropolitan Paris.

Broca’s name is known today, even to those outside the medical profession, because of a patient he first saw on Apr. 12, 1861. The man was named Laborgne; he was 51 years old, and had been hospitalized for 20 years, after he lost his ability to speak. He was transferred to Broca's surgical ward because he had gradually become paralyzed on