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{{Short description|French neurologist (1849–1917)}}
'''Paul Oulmont''' (April 21, 1849 – November 3, 1917) was a French neurologist and a noted art collector.
Oulmont was born April 21, 1849, in [[Épinal]], France, the son of Charles Oulmont (1819–1875) and  Mathilde Lehmann (1827–c.1875). In 1878 he married Louise Julie Emerique. He bestowed an important collection of drawings to his native town of  Épinal.<ref>{{cite book
| author=Jérôme Delaplanche, Isabelle Chave
| year=2007
| title=La Collection Oulmont. Le goût de la grâce et du joli. Dessins, peintures et pastels du XVIIIe siècle
| location=Vosges, France
| publisher=Musée départemental d’art ancien et contemporain
| isbn=978-2912395115}}</ref>  Oulmont received his medical degree in 1873 and was appointed [[Jean-Martin Charcot| Jean-Martin Charcot's]] house officer in 1877.  In 1878, he defended his thesis on [[athetosis]], closely followed by papers which included the first description of double athetosis.  Although athetosis was known as "Hammond's disease," after [[William Alexander Hamilton]] ( 1828-1900), Oulmont presented a much earlier description written in 1853 by his mentor, Charcot, who classified the disorder as a form of [[chorea]].<ref name="Walusinski">{{cite book
| author=O. (Brou) Walusinski
| year=2011
| chapter=Jean-Martin Charcot's house officers at la Salpêtrière Hospital
| title=Following Charcot: A Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry
| series=Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
| volume=29
| location=Basel Switzerland
| publisher=Reinhardt Druck
| page=24
| isbn=978-3-8055-9556-8}}
</ref>  Oulmont's name is associated with a number of disorders including diabetic neuropathy,  Mercury toxicity in tics, and facial hemiplegia.<ref name="Walusinski"/>
He died November 3, 1917, in Paris.
==Works by Oulmont==
*''Étude clinique sur l'athétose,'' Paris, 1878
*''Athetosis.'' In: Monthly Abstract of Medical Science 1878; vol. 5,  p.&nbsp;391–392. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9xGgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA391]
*''De l’athétose.'' In: Revue Mensuelle de Medicine et de Chirurgie. 1878; vol. 2, p.&nbsp;81–94.
*''Thérapeutique des névroses'', Paris, O. Doin, 1894, reissued in 1910
*''L'Obésité, symptomatologique et étiologique, anatomie et physiologie pathologique'', Paris, O. Doin, 1907, (in collaboration with Félix Ramond)
==Honours==
A room at the Bichat Hospital was named in his honor in 1931.
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