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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...
...Jean Martin Charcot in 1867 a son was born who was christened Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste. The boy grew up without thought of any other vocation than his father's, in which he quickly showed marked ability. In 1896. after practicing medicine for only six years, he became head of the clinics at the University of Paris. This was unheard of in a country which venerates age in scholarship and government. Dr. Charcot regretted that his father had not lived to see this honor...
Some time in the next seven years Dr. Charcot came to feel that his true calling was not medicine but exploration. In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored...
During the War Dr. Charcot commanded a submarine chaser, won the Croix de Guerre and Britain's D. S. C. Afterward he turned to Earth's other Pole, took the Pourqnoi Pas on seven trips to Greenland, exploring the coast, sounding the bottom, studying Eskimo folklore. In 1928 the sturdy old man in his sturdy old ship searched long & hard for his lost colleague, Roald Amundsen. By this time he had presented the Pourquoi Pas to the French Museum of Natural History, which sponsored most of his expeditions...
...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...