Broca
PAUL (brō-kä), a French anthropologist, born in Gironde, Jan. 28, 1824; studied medicine and became Professor of Pathology at Paris, and famous as a surgeon; was founder of the Anthropological Society of Paris; founder of the Anthropological Institute or School, and founder and editor of the "Anthropological Review"; wrote several monographs on strangulation and hernia, aneurisms, anesthesia, abscesses, hybrids, and various anthropological subjects; was leader of the Evolutionist School in France, and became a life Senator. He died in Paris, July 9, 1880.