Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot was born in Paris in 1825, the son of a carriage builder. He studied medicine in Paris and in 1862 became a physician at the Salpêtrière, a huge hospital that housed thousands of elderly and chronically ill women. Charcot used its patients to study diseases of the nervous system in detail, comparing symptoms during life with what was found in the brain and spinal cord after death. He gave the first full descriptions of multiple sclerosis and of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, still sometimes called Charcot's disease, and studied Parkinson's disease. In 1882 he became the first professor of diseases of the nervous system in France, a chair created for him. His Tuesday lectures, in which he demonstrated patients before large audiences, were famous, and his students included Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Joseph Babinski and Georges Gilles de la Tourette. In his later years he studied hysteria and hypnosis, work that was influential but much debated. His lectures on diseases of the nervous system were translated widely. He died in 1893.

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Faith: Has been described as an atheist. Source: Wikipedia