Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux Faites à la Salpêtrière Volume 1

Leons sur les maladies du systme nerveuxFaites la Salptrire\nAuthor(s): Jean-Martin Charcot, D. M. Bourneville\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108038461, 978-1108038461\nSynopsis\nJean-Martin Charcot [tel] was a professor of anatomical pathology at the Piti-Salptrire 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 18723 and 1877, were based on extensive clinical studies at the Salptrire, and edited by Dsir Magloire Bourneville. (The second edition of Volume 1, reissued here, was published i.