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Jean Marc Gaspard Itard(Jean Marc Gaspard Itard)
A French Physician
1774 - Born on April 24 in Provence.
1786 - He was appointed Chirurgien aide-major at Val de Grâce in Paris.
1789 - Physician at the Institute for Deaf Mutes.
1816 - 1832 - Co-editor of the Journal Universel des Sciences Médicales, Paris (1822), (1821) Published a major work on Otology. Co-Editor of the Revue médical, (1832) of the Dictionnaire de médecine ou répertoire générale des sciences médicales sous le rapport théorique et pratique.
1825 - Was credited with describing the first case of Tourette syndrome.
1838 - July 5, he died in Paris.
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