Jean-Martin Charcot
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
- Disintegration of joint surfaces though loss of proprioception
- 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
- Charcot-Leyden crystals
- Charcot joint
- Famous students
- Taught at Salpêtrière.
- Sigmund Freud
- Joseph Babinski
- Alfred Binet
Categories: French people stubs | French physicians | 1825 births | 1893 deaths | History of medicine