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JEAN MARTIN CHARCOT (1825-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 857 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:MARTIN See also:CHARCOT (1825-1893)  , See also:French physician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 27th of See also:November 1825 . In 1853 he graduated as M.D. of Paris University, and three years later was appointed physician of the Central See also:Hospital See also:Bureau . In 186o he became See also:professor of pathological See also:anatomy in the medical See also:faculty of Paris, and in 1862 began that famous connexion with the Salpetriere which lasted to the end of his See also:life . He was elected to the See also:Academy of See also:Medicine in 1873, and ten years afterwards became a member of the See also:Institute . His See also:death occurred suddenly on the 16th of See also:August 1893 at See also:Morvan, where he had gone for a See also:holiday . See also:Charcot, who was a See also:good linguist and well acquainted with the literature of his own as well as of other countries, excelled as a clinical observer and a pathologist . His See also:work at the Salpetriere exerted a See also:great See also:influence on the development of the See also:science of neurology, and his classical Lecons sur See also:les maladies du systcme nerveux, the first See also:series of which was published in 1893, represents an enormous advance in the knowledge and discrimination of See also:nervous diseases . He also devoted much See also:attention to the study of obscure morbid conditions like See also:hysteria, especially in relation to See also:hypnotism (q.v.); indeed, it is in connexion with his investigation into the phenomena and results of the latter that his name is popularly known . In addition to his labours on neurological and even physiological problems he made many contributions to other branches of medicine, his published See also:works dealing, among other topics, with See also:liver and See also:kidney diseases, See also:gout and pulmonary See also:phthisis . As a teacher he was remarkably successful, and always commanded an enthusiastic See also:band of followers .

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