biography
| name: |
Charcot, Jean Martin
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pronunciation:
[shah(r)koh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–93)
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| biography:
| Pathologist, one of the founders of neurology, born in Paris, France. He worked at the Salpêtrière, and had Freud among his pupils. He contributed much to the knowledge of chronic neurological diseases, and made hypnotism a scientific study. The way joints deteriorate in some types of neurological disease was named after him (Charcot's joint). |
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