Word: charcot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in November in the year 1825, a child was born in Paris who was to be one of the greatest neurologists of the 19th Century. Jean Martin Charcot became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear...
...uses it every day on London's sane and insane, U. S. psychiatrists were professionally interested, regardless of what they thought of his divagations into yogism, perfect numbers, symbolism of colors. Dr. Cannon discusses not only his own methods but those of such pioneers as Mesmer and Charcot, of such well-known hypnotists as Bernheim, Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating stammering and certain hysterical neuroses. Dr. Cannon believes it is useful in treating tetanus, diabetes, prostatic enlargement, menstrual disorders and in relieving...
...article, "How Trivial Are Modern Books?" by Mary Colum will interest those without any too definite ideas on literature. There is a fair review, with comment, of the trends centering around Flaubert and the Realists, and of the exudations of the followers of Charcot and Freud. The article eventually degenerates into a dissertation on style, with a great deal of maundering on "the passion of the inner rhythm." The worst fault of the piece is the conspicuous absence of a satisfactory answer to the question propounded in the title, and to the other questions raised...
...Freud, whose pyscho-analysis makes "comprehensible . . . the voices that exhort us or allure us behind our waking words and our waking consciousness and to whose bidding we generally pay more heed than to that of our recognized will." Freud got his first real start in Paris under the famed Charcot who cured hysterical paralysis by hypnotic suggestion. Thereafter Freud made a systematic study of the subconscious, discovered the truth of the Chinese proverb: "What is pent up in the deepest recesses of the heart, sneezes itself...
...Even if Columbus had not discovered America," continued Dr. Charcot, "he would have gone down in history as the Admiral who first provided seamen with hammocks in which to sleep aboard ship. . . . Columbus was also one of the first great vegetarians. . . . He lived on fruits and vegetables almost exclusively and never drank alcoholic drinks, preferring water with a little sugar in it. . . . His use of perfumes was his only bad habit. All in all he was a clean, religious man. But he used to spray himself profusely with attar of roses and essence of black currants...