Victor Alphonse Amédée Dumontpallier (8 March 1826,

Honfleur Honfleur () is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from Le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit Hon ...

– 13 January 1899,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

) was a French

gynecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, which focuses on pre ...

best known for his studies of

hypnotism Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.In 2015, the American Psychological ...

and metalloscopy (metallotherapy). In 1857 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where from 1863 he served as ''chef de clinique'' at the

Hôtel-Dieu In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu () was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest an ...

. In 1866 he was named ''chef de service'' at the Hôpital de la Pitié in Paris.Dumontpallier, Victor Alphonse Amédée
Sociétés savantes de France From 1860 to 1879 he was a member of the

Société de biologie The Société de biologie () is a learned society founded in Paris in 1848. The society was conceived during the French Revolution of 1848. The members of the society held regular meetings and published the proceedings in a new scientific journal. ...

, and in 1892 was elected as a member of the

Académie de médecine An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

. In 1891 he was named president of the ''Société d'hypnologie et de psychologie'', an organization of which, he was also a co-founder. In 1886, he co-founded the journal "''Revue de l'hypnotisme expérimental et thérapeutique''".Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma
edited by J. Bogousslavsky He was a prominent member of the so-called " Salpêtrière School of Hypnosis". He described the phenomenon of "bilateral hallucinations" and opposing expressions (double expressions). In his experiments, he demonstrated that a patient under hypnosis could simultaneously show expressions of joy on one side of the face and despair on the other side. His name is associated with the "Dumontpallier

pessary A pessary is a prosthetic device inserted into the Human vagina, vagina for structural and pharmaceutical purposes. It is most commonly used to treat Stress incontinence, stress urinary incontinence to stop urinary leakage and to treat pelvic org ...

" (''Le pessaire de Dumontpallier''), a medical device used for

uterine prolapse Uterine prolapse is a form of pelvic organ prolapse in which the uterus and a portion of the upper vagina protrude into the vaginal canal and, in severe cases, through the opening of the vagina. It is most often caused by injury or damage to stru ...

Selected works

* ''Étude expérimentale sur la métalloscopie et la métallothérapie du Dr Burq, rapports faits à la Société de biologie (1877-1878)'', 1879 – Experimental study on the metalloscopy and metallotherapy of Dr. Victor Burq. * ''Note sur l'analgésie thérapeutique locale déterminée par l'irritation de la région similaire du côté opposé du corps'', 1880 – Note on localized

analgesia Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals ...

therapy, etc. * ''Revue descriptive des appareils destinés aux applications thérapeutiques de la chaleur et du froid'' (with Émile Galante), 1880 – Descriptive review of apparatuses for the therapeutic applications of heat and cold. * ''Hypnotisme expérimental. La dualité cérébrale et l'indépendance fonctionnelle des deux hémisphères cérébraux'' (with

Edgar Bérillon Edgar Bérillon (23 May 1859, Saint-Fargeau – 6 March 1948) was a French psychiatrist known for his research of hypnosis. He studied medicine in Paris, and from 1882 worked as a préparateur of comparative pathology courses at the National ...

), 1884 – Experimental hypnosis; cerebral duality and functional independence of the two

cerebral hemisphere The vertebrate cerebrum (brain) is formed by two cerebral hemispheres that are separated by a groove, the longitudinal fissure. The brain can thus be described as being divided into left and right cerebral hemispheres. Each of these hemispheres ...

s. * ''Traitement local de l'endométrite chronique: communication faite à l'Académie de médecine'', 1891 – Local treatment of chronic

endometritis Endometritis is inflammation of the inner lining of the uterus (endometrium). Symptoms may include fever, lower abdominal pain, and abnormal vaginal bleeding or discharge. It is the most common cause of infection after childbirth. It is also p ...

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