BROUSSAIS, FRANC OIS JOSEPH VICTOR (1772— 1838 , French physician, was born at St. Malo on Dec. 17, 1772, the son of a physician. After much active service in the wars of the Revolution he returned in 1814 to Paris, and was appointed assistant-professor to the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace, where he first promulgated his doctrines on the relation between "life" and "stimulus," and on the physiological interdependence and sympathies of the various organs. In 1816 he published his Examen de la doctrine medicale generalement qdoptee, which drew down upon its author the hatred of the whole medical faculty of Paris ; but by degrees his doctrines triumphed, and in 1831 he was appointed professor of general pathology in the academy of medicine. He died at Vitry-sur-Seine on Nov. 17, 1838. A statue in his honour was erected at the Val-de-Grace hospital.