Charcot
Americannoun
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Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste 1867–1936, French explorer.
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his father Jean Martin 1825–93, French neuropathologist.
noun
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The races took place on drifting sea ice at the geographic North Pole in the Arctic, with competitors arriving from Norway aboard the French polar vessel Le Commandant Charcot.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
In the same time period, French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot suggested that patients experiencing symptoms associated with what doctors then called "hysteria" perhaps actually had a history of trauma.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2023
Both men had studied under Jean-Martin Charcot, who believed that hysteria could arise from traumatic events as well as from physiological causes.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Thereafter, between studying with neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at Salpêtrière Hospital, he returned to Notre Dame “every free afternoon” to be in its presence.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2019
The hypnotic experiments of the late Dr. Charcot, the well-known French biologist, also demonstrate the rapport existing between the sensitive subject and foreign bodies in proximity.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
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