Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1918

JEAN MARTIN CHARCOT (1825-1893) Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à la Salpêtrière. Adrien Delahaye 1872-1873 [First series]. 368 pp., illus. 22.2 cm.

In France, Charcot was one of the greatest neurologists of his time. It was perhaps his incomparable qualities as teacher, writer, and organizer that contributed most to the great reputation of this gifted clinician. . . . He was the creator of the greatest modern neurological clinic, and a masterly describer of many disease pictures. . . . Charcot brought to his clinic at the Salpêtrière a group of devoted pupils who were among the founders of modern neurology (Arturo Castiglioni, A history of medicine. New York, 1946. pp. 739-740). Charcot was an outstanding teacher, and this course of lectures at the Salp!etrière constitutes one of the classic textbooks in the field of neurology and is his greatest work. This is the first series of lectures on nervous disorders.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4546; Waller 1913