Medal Professor Albert Pitres – Neurologist – Bordeaux – Signed by Paul Richer
In bronze
Weight: 135.8 g
Diameter: 68 mm
Biography :
Albert Pitres (1848-1928) was a French neurologist. He received his training in Paris where he was a student of Charcot and Dejerine. He was dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.
His name remained a sign of pleural effusion and a sign of tabes.
Anecdote:
The engraver Paul Richer (1849-1933) also happened to be a neurologist and student of Charcot, as well as a medallist, and one can imagine that the two men knew each other well.
Obverse:
Circular inscription:
PROFESSEUR • A. PITRES • DE • L’ACMIE • DE • MÉDECINE •
Dressed bust in profile to the left of Professor Albert Pitres , wearing his Commander’s Cross of the Legion of Honor .
Signature:
PAUL RICHER
1914
Reverse:
Circular inscription:
• AU MAITRE • AU DOYEN • A L’AMI •
Facade of the Victoire campus of the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux by architect JL Pascal, presenting on the 1st floor the busts of five personalities from the world of medicine: Jussieu for botany, Laënnec for medicine, Bichat for anatomy, Dupuytren for surgery, Lavoisier for chemistry.
On the forecourt, two imposing statues form a symbolic dyad representing Nature (Louis-Ernest Barrias) revealing itself before Science (Pierre-Jules Cavelier).
Signature: PASCAL. ARCH.
Above in the sky, the motto:
PRO • SCIENTA URBE • PATRIA
Below, between an oak branch and a laurel branch, the crowned coat of arms of Bordeaux (Gules with a castle of four crenellated towers covered in silver, portcullised and topped with a bell tower of the same bearing a silver bell, all masoned in sable, surmounted by a leopard of gold, placed on waves of azure moving from the point and charged with a crescent of silver; with a chief sewn in azure strewn with golden fleurs-de-lis.) .
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
