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Jean Martin Charcot - Definition and Overview
Professor Charcot was well-known for showing, during his lessons at the Salpêtrière hospital, "hysterical" woman patients – here, his favorite patient, "Blanche" (Marie) Wittman, supported by Joseph Babinsky.

Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 - 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist.

  • Contributions
    • Experiments in hypnosis
    • Description of hysteria
    • Recognised disseminated sclerosis as a distinct disease
    • Described ankle clonus
      • Work with
    • Recognized the relationship between specific spinal cord and brain lesions and disease
  • Entities named for Charcot
    • Charcot joint
    • Charcot foot
    • Charcot's disease
      • Cerebrospinal stenosis
    • Charcot-Marie-Tooth_disease (CMT)
      • Announced the disease simultaneously with Pierre Marie (France) and Howard Henry Tooth (England)
      • Sometimes called peroneal muscular atrophy
  • Famous students

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ihbsonline_com: #HEALTH Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot
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