Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux
Faites à la Salpêtrière

These clinical lectures by the founder of modern neurology, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93), were first published between 1872 and 1877.

Jean-Martin Charcot (Author), D. M. Bourneville (Edited by)

9781108038461, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 October 2011

444 pages, 27 b/w illus. 9 colour illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93) was a professor of anatomical pathology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and one of the founders of modern neurology. Numerous disorders are named after him, and he was one of the best known doctors in nineteenth-century France. He was the first to describe and name multiple sclerosis, and undertook crucial research into what became known as Parkinson's Disease. He also worked on hysteria, and was one of Freud's teachers. These two volumes of lectures on neurological illnesses, first published in Paris in 1872–3 and 1877, were based on extensive clinical studies at the Salpêtrière, and edited by Désiré Magloire Bourneville. (The second edition of Volume 1, reissued here, was published in 1875.) Analysis of symptoms, sometimes using photography, combined with post-mortem analyses, allowed Charcot to produce classic descriptions of different neurological disorders. Volume 1 deals with spinal lesions, disseminated sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease and hysteria.

Première Partie. Des Troubles Trophiques Consécutifs aux Maladies du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière: 1. Troubles trophiques consécutifs aux lésions des nerfs
2. Troubles trophiques consécutifs aux lésions des nerfs (suite). Affections des muscles. Troubles trophiques consécutifs aux lésions de la moelle épinière
3. Troubles trophiques consécutifs aux lésions de la moelle épinière et du cerveau (suite)
4. Troubles trophiques consécutifs aux lésions de la moelle épinière et du cerveau (suite et fin). Affections des viscères
Deuxième Partie. Paralysie Agitante et Sclérose en Plaques Disséminées: 5. De la paralysie agitante
6. De la sclérose en plaques disséminées. Anatomie pathologique
7. De la sclérose en plaques disséminées. Symptomatologie
8. Des attaques apoplectiformes dans la sclérose en plaques. Des périodes et des formes. Physiologie pathologique. Étiologie. Traitement
Troisième Partie. Hystérie. Hystéro-épilepsie: 9. De l'ischurie hystérique
10. De l'hémianesthésie hystérique
11. De l'hyperesthésie ovarienne
12. De la contracture hystérique
13. De l'hystéro-épilepsie
Appendice
Explication des planches.

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]