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  • Title: Jules Sottas (1866-1945) forgotten despite the eponym: "Dejerine-Sottas syndrome".
    Author: Walusinski O.
    Journal: Rev Neurol (Paris); 2019 May; 175(5):283-290. PubMed ID: 30922590.
    Abstract:
    The eponym "Dejerine Sottas" makes 21st-century neurologists think of a form of heredity peripheral neuropathy leading to amyotrophy and secondary to a mutation of one of the many genes responsible for the formation of myelin. The seminal description was the work of Sottas and Jules Dejerine (1849-1917); Dejerine was the prestigious second successor of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Clinic of Nervous System Diseases at the La Salpêtrière hospital. Jules Sottas (1866-1945) has almost been forgotten, but as a young man he was a brilliant resident under Dejerine. However, Sottas eventually gave up medicine, even though he could have had a successful career as a neurologist, to devote himself to his passion for history, especially the history of navigation. But during his time as a physician he published several original works, always supported by detailed neuro-pathological studies, the result of his very close collaboration with Dejerine at Bicêtre then at La Salpêtrière. After a brief biography of Sottas, we will analyse his neurological work and then highlight the quality of his publications on naval and maritime history, which are still relevant today.
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