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Charcot

NOUN
  1. French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)

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  • He also contributed to Charcot's classical study of tabes dorsalis published in 1868, which established the differential diagnosis between the arthropathies caused by rheumatoid arthritis and those associated with tabetic lesions.
  • No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing. Là-bas
  • In short, M. Charcot places hypnotism in the same category of nervous affections in which hysteria and finally hallucination (medically considered) are to be classed, that is to say, as a nervous weakness, not to say a disease. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
  • The following method was imparted confidentially to me by the Canon Charcot, a gourmand by profession, and a perfect gastronome, thirty years before the word gastronomy was invented: The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
  • Do these investigations of the face and body reach beyond the obscure and dated science of Duchenne, Charcot and their followers?
  • ↑ Charcot, J. Histologie de la sclerose en plaques. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Neuropathy can also cause deformities such as bunions, hammer toes, and charcot feet.
  • Neuropathy can also cause deformities such as bunions, hammer toes, and charcot feet.
  • If the slowing of nerve conduction affects all nerves roughly equally the diagnosis is likely to be the demyelinating form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
  • In 1853, Charcot successfully defended his doctoral thesis, presenting original work to differentiate the symptoms of gout from chronic rheumatism.
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