A new case of spinal cord compression secondary to steroid-induced epidural lipomatosis is reported in a patient treated for dermatomyositis. Computed tomography was performed before the institution of steroid therapy, during spinal cord compression, and after effective surgical treatment. The development of epidural lipomatosis does not require a preexisting lipoma and may occur in a previously normal spine.

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[The first doctor of the king].

Kings had their own doctors since very ancient times and, in France, it appeared during Clovis reign. The notion "First Doctor of the King" came into sight for the 14th century to the 17th. The "First Doctor of the King" was permanently present next to the him and the royal family. He had some responsibilities in the Kingdom: Direction of the Botanic Gardens, monopoly to nominate justice experts, Direction of Mineral springs and presidency of the Royal Medical Academy. This second category of functions of the First Doctor of the King had undergone limitations in power.

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[Franco-Mexican medical action and the Mexican Expedition (1864-1867)].

In the days when French expeditionary troops were fighting in Mexico, Napoleon the Third founded a "Mexican Scientific Committee" in the same wave length as his uncle, General Bonaparte in Egypt. The Committee was headquartered in Paris and since April 1864, a "Franco-Mexican Committee" took place at Mexico-City. The medical branch was led, in Paris, by the Baron Hippolyte Larrey and chaired on the spot by Dr Ehrmann; it will become the "Academia de Medicina de Mexico" and published the "Gaceta Medica". Numerous researchs were undertaken and most of them printed in the "Gaceta Medica" with some regards to many diseases, particuliarly Yellow Fever and Typhus. The Academia and Gaceta will last long after war ending and, in 1970, a special session was hallowed to their foundation, more than one century before.

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