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...medical science had a trophy cabinet, the shelf for achievement in motor neurone disease would be almost bare. Lack of time hasn't been the problem. It was in 1869 that a French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, suggested grouping several conditions under one name - what we now call MND. Then things went quiet for 120 years. "Traditionally, it was a case of doctors saying to patients, in effect: 'You've got motor neurone disease - go home and write your will,'" says Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing...
...Freud merely thought of his fondness for cocaine as a sort of hobby. But when cases of cocaine poisoning and addiction began to pour in, Freud's hobby made him the center of a scandal. His colleagues were further scandalized when, under the influence of France's Charcot, Freud became an ardent supporter of hypnotism...
...Austrian Anton Mesmer, who gave his name (mesmerism) to a technique now called hypnotism, has been called a faker. More likely, some modern psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
...Paris clinic, Hypnotist Charcot had often commanded drowsy neurotics to shed their symptoms. But only a few obeyed the doctor's powerful will and woke up cured. Yet hypnotism was the only scientific light which could prick the deep caverns of the unconscious mind, and even if it brought no lasting cures, young Dr. Freud could not very well do without...
...July 1935, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste Charcot took the Pourqnoi Pas once more out of St. Malo, bound for Greenland. Said he then: "This voyage will be my last." Objectives were to bring back a party of scientists, make additional studies of the polar current and more extensive deep-sea soundings, visit a settleent of Eskimos unknown to Europeans. The explorer was expected in Copenhagen late this month to attend a reception in his honor, receive a gold medal...