[Paul F. Girard, neurologist and historian of medicine]

The authors pay tribute to their master, Pr Paul Girard, former President of the "French Society of Neurology", Head of the Neurology Department at the Antiquaille Hospital and later at the Lyons Neurological Hospital. He was the instigator of important research on cervical and lumbar discopathy, infantile encephalopathy and Gayet-Wernicke encephalopath;y now called Gayet-Wernicke-Girard disease. In psychiatry, his particular interests were cerebral diminance and the corpus callosum. He was also a great historian of medicine and published works on the history of Neurology and Psychiatry in Lyons and also on the "Mal des ardents" (burning or fiery disease).