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Charcot

noun
1.
French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893).  Synonym: Jean Martin Charcot.



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"Charcot" Quotes from Famous Books



... Messrs. Alfred Binet and Charles Fere of the medical staff of the Salpetriere Hospital for Nervous Disorders in Paris. It gives a history of the patient researches conducted at that institution by the medical staff under the celebrated Prof. Charcot during the past nine years. These experiments have been prosecuted according to the most exact scientific methods, and with the most extreme caution. The endeavor has been to obtain, first of all, the most elementary psychic ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various

... my friends' apartments, I came upon this piteous sight: Mrs. P——, who had a head of curly hair, was not only without a maid, but also without the use of her right arm. The fame of Charcot had brought her to Paris. Unless she breakfasted alone, which she hated, her hair must be arranged. Behold, then, the emergency for which her husband, Colonel P——, had, boldly not to say recklessly, offered ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris



Words linked to "Charcot" :   neurologist, brain doctor



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