Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (born 1825)

Jean-Martin Charcot

French neurologist (1825–1893)

Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. Charcot is known as "the founder of modern neurology", and his name…