J. V. Laborde (1830–1903)

Abstract

DR. LABORDE (Jean Baptiste Vincent), who died recently at the age of seventy-two, was born at Buzet (Lot et Garonne), and received a good education at the Lycée of Cahors, after spending some time in a boarding-school at Casteljaloux. To satisfy his natural bent for medical studies he went to Paris, without any resources, and, in order to provide for his livelihood and his studies, he was obliged to give private lessons. However, he managed to be appointed externe des hopitaux in 1854, in the same promotion as Lancereaux, now president of the Académie de Médecine. Four years later, he obtained the internat, in which capacity he spent four years more in the hospitals of Paris, after which he was graduated doctor médic, for his thesis on “La Paralysie Infantile” (1864). Meanwhile he had obtained the gold medal of the hospitals, the Corvisart prize, and another prize from the Société Médicale des Hopitaux, and, lastly, in the very year in which he got his doctor's degree, the Godard prize, awarded by the Société Anatomique de Paris.