| Leçons Sur Les Maladies Du Système Nerveux: Faites À La Salpêtrière Contributor(s): Charcot, Jean-Martin (Author), Bourneville, D. M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108038468 ISBN-13: 9781108038461 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Medical | Neurology |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.23 lbs) 444 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-93) was a professor of anatomical pathology at the Piti -Salp tri re 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 Salp tri re, and edited by D sir 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. |
