Yvonne Sorrel-Dejerine

On 13 April 1921, she married surgeon Étienne Sorrel, head of the department at the Assistance Public Hospital in Berck, France.

[3] Working as an intern in the Berck maritime hospital, Dr. Sorrel-Dejerine had the opportunity to observe numerous cases of vertebral bone tuberculosis of the child.

Operative treatment is also condemned as unnecessary and ineffective, and indeed her experience in these 44 cases is so good as amply to justify the attitude which she adopts in this respect.

"[3]She was awarded the Lallemand Prize from the Academy of Sciences for her work titled "Contribution a l'etude des paraplegies pottiques.

"[4] Yvonne Sorrel-Dejerine died at the age of 95, on 26 July 1986, at the Dejerine family chalet in Switzerland, which was originally owned by her parents and named Le Neurone at the Thalgut.

Burial site in Père Lachaise Cemetery of Jules Dejerine (1849-1917), neurologist; his wife Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke , (1859-1927), neurologist, first female internist at the Paris Hospitals; Étienne Sorrel (1882-1965), doctor of medicine, surgeon at the Paris Hospitals; his wife Yvonne Sorrel-Dejerine (1891-1986), doctor of medicine, vice-president of the Paris Neurology Society.