PMID: 11625138Jan 1, 1996Paper

J.M. Charcot 1825-1893. A life of labor

Dansk medicinhistorisk årbog
H Sørensen

Abstract

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) is regarded as the father of clinical neurology. He was born in Paris. At the age of nineteen he began his medical studies at the University of Paris and after having passed his internship he continued his education in the Paris hospital system and successively passed from chief of clinic to physician to the hospitals of Paris and to professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Early in his academic medical career he was concerned chiefly with problems of internal medicine and produced lasting tributes to clinical and pathological understanding of especially rheumatism. His interests eventually settled to the study of disorders of the nervous system. In 1862 he was appointed physician to the Hospital of the Salpêtrière, which was to become the center of his discoveries and fame. The Salpêtrière, which had a long history as asylum and prison, was when Charcot arrived still a custodial institution for unclassified and displaced unfortunates, numbering about five thousand. Out of this hodge-podge Charcot developed in a few years the world's greatest center for clinical neurological research and introduced his famous clinico-pathological approach to the study of neurological disorders, by which he was able ...Continue Reading

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