See also:JEAN See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
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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