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Charles Burlureaux
1851–1927
A French physician and psychiatrist, he wrote about mental illness, psychotherapy, tuberculosis, and public health at a time when medicine was rapidly changing. His books blend clinical experience with a broad interest in how people fight disease and preserve well-being.
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La lutte pour la santé: essai de pathologie générale
by Charles Burlureaux
About the author
Born in Dijon on July 24, 1851, Charles Clément Burlureaux was a French physician and psychiatrist who later worked as an associate professor at the Val-de-Grâce in Paris. Alongside his medical career, he published a range of works on psychiatry, psychotherapy, antisepsis, tuberculosis treatment, and general pathology.
His bibliography shows how wide his interests were. Among the works associated with him are Traité pratique de psychothérapie, La lutte pour la santé: essai de pathologie générale, and earlier studies on mental disorders such as Considérations sur le siège, la nature et les causes de la folie paralytique. That mix of subjects makes him notable not just as a clinician, but as a medical writer trying to connect theory, treatment, and everyday health.
Burlureaux died in Paris on January 18, 1927. Though he is not widely known today outside specialist circles, his surviving books offer a clear window into French medical thought at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.