Jean-Martin CHARCOT - Signed Autograph Letter. Electricity treated hysteria

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Jean-Martin CHARCOT - Signed Autograph Letter. Electricity treated hysteria:
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Jean-Martin CHARCOT (1825- 1893)

Signed Autograph Lettere to a colleague.

Two in-12° pages on paper at his Varengeville Hotel address.

Discreet repair to the back fold of the sheet.

Paris, February 13, 1891.

"I hope" only electricity and massage may incur healing. »

The French neurologist, leader of l’École de la Salpêtrière, directs a sick patient to a treatment combining electrical care and massage.

"My dear Sir Gauthier, Do you want to be interested in the patient here, and which is cared for by M. Vigouroux [Doctor Romain Vigouroux (1831.1911)]. The unfortunate lady is in a hurry; she residence in Lucca - hopefully" only electricity and massage will be able to contribute to healing.Believe my distinguished feelings. Charcot. 1891 February 13. »

Jean-Martin Charcot remains one of France’s most illustrious clinicians and the initiator of modern neurology and psychopathology, in light of his work on hypnosis and his research on "hysteria".

Teacher of pathological anatomy at the Université de Paris, from 1860 to 1893, " In 1882, Charcot opened a neurological clinic in Paris’ Salpêtrière hospital, welcoming students from all over the world. The most famous of them Sigmund Freud - a pupil between 1885 and 1886 - testified to how decisive Charcot’s work on hysteria was for him in his psychoanalytic research: "Charcot is one of the greatest doctors whose reason borders on genius, [...] no one has ever had so much influence on me." His work on the psychological origins of neurosis will be built on the basis of Charcot’s studies of hypnosis training.

Elected a member of the Academy of Medicine in 1873, his work on the nervous system led him to establish a very accurate description of multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Charcot’s infamous disease.”

However, it was this work on hysteria and hypnosis that revolutionized 19th-century medicine." These methods of care, often decried, gave great room to electric treatments (as referred to in this letter)." As early as 1875, the neurologist had the doctor Romain Vigouroux organize an electrotherapy service developing static electricity therapy for this purpose.

Thehotel in Varengeville or hotel de Guerchy is the mansion located 217 bd Saint Germain in 7"andarrondissement of Paris, where the Maison de l’Amérique latine is now based.

Jean-Martin Charcot acquired the mansion from the Gontaut-Biron family in 1884."" Upon the neurologist’s death, his heirs ceded the hotel to the Banque d’Algérie. After Algerian independence in 1962, ownership returned to the Caisse des retraités de la Banque de France

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