Joseph Abadie

Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie (15 December 1873, Tarbes – 1934) was a French neurologist who is remembered for naming Abadie's symptom.

Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie was born in 1873 in Tarbes, département Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He studied medicine at the University of Bordeaux, qualifying in 1900. In 1918 he became professor of neurology and psychiatry at Bordeaux. His work included the study of tabes dorsalis and alcoholism. He died in 1934.