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.
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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
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
Hugh Boyd, 57, had a planned amputation 17 years ago after years of struggling with nerve damage and Charcot foot, which causes bones to weaken and joints to collapse.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2018
Freud, who studied it with the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris, abandoned it in favor of the “talking cure,” after returning to Vienna.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015
Mesmer has been well avenged by Charcot, the great professor who fills the chair in the clinical ward of the Saltpetriere for the nervous diseases of women.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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