Dr Paul Broca
(1824 - 1880)
In his native France, at the tender age of 17, he stated his monumental life as a prosector and he eventually became Secretary of the Societe Anatomique. As a neurologicial clinician and researcher, he wrote effusively - well over 500 presentations. He is best known for his concept of cerebral convolution. He demonstrated the brain lesion of his first patient who had sufferd from aphemie (renamed aphasia later by Armand Trousseau (1801 - 1867). From this presentation and from other ongoing observations he concluded that the integrity of the left frontal convolution was responsible and recessary for articular speech.