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... Abstract Charcot neuropathic osteoarthropathy (CN) is one of the most debilitating complications of diabetic neuropathy. It classically presents as a red hot swollen foot, precipitated by trauma. The latter leads to fracture, bone fragmentation and ultimately foot deformity. Recent advances...

... Abstract Charcot neuropathic osteoarthropathy is a severe complication of diabetic neuropathy. Even today the disease is difficult to recognize and treat. While in the early stages conservative therapy is extremely efficient and avoids progression into more advanced phases, when...

... persisting polemics. Theories fluctuated chaotically, influenced by social changes of prosperity or deprivation, current attitudes, and issues of gender. Faced with a large number of patients with such illnesses as well as many with epilepsy, mental illnesses, and organic nervous disorders, Charcot set about...

... Abstract Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) rightly is considered the father of both modern neurology and psychiatry in France and much beyond. While he never was interested in mental disease and what was called ‘alienism' at the time, his career at La Salpêtrière Hospital over 30 years was mainly...

... unbearable position in life and love is a tragic side effect of this ‘cure' (see Smyth et al. [ 4 , 5 ] with their work that demonstrates the effectiveness of expressive writing in patients and healthy respondents). Charcot conceptualized ‘hysteria' as a disorder of the nervous system, ‘as real...

... Abstract At the time of Jean-Martin Charcot, Paris – the main center for studies on the nervous system and its disorders – was home to critical exchanges between the developing discipline of neurology and psychiatry. Contrary to the commonly held view, and in spite of an established tradition...

... Abstract At the time of his death in 1893, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) had reigned supreme over neurology in Paris for some 10 years. The problem of finding a successor was not easy to solve, and it was initially agreed that a temporary replacement should be found. Édouard Brissaud (1852...

... Abstract The studies on hysteria and hypnotism probably constitute the most important long-term work of Jean-Martin Charcot and his school, starting around 1870 until Charcot’s death in 1893. Désiré Bourneville, Charcot’s sixth interne at La Salpêtrière , was probably instrumental...

... of Jean-Martin Charcot, local personalities, and the interactions between the two. Leading figures included Albert Pitres in Bordeaux, Léon Ingelrans in Lille, Eugène Devic and Jules Froment in Lyon, Lucien Cornil in Marseille, Joseph Grasset in Montpellier, and Marcel Riser in Toulouse. The interaction...

... Abstract Jean-Martin Charcot, famous professor of the Chair of Clinic for Diseases of the Nervous System at Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, was himself an artist, surrounded by artists, and adored the theater. His close colleague Charles Brown-Séquard was ridiculed by Georges Feydeau in a brief...

... Abstract Jules Bernard Luys (1828–1897) is a relatively unknown figure in 19th century French neuropsychiatry. Although greatly influenced by Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), Luys worked in the shadow of the ‘master of La Salpêtrière’ for about a quarter of a century. When he arrived...

... Abstract In this chapter, we present an analytical and critical inventory of Charcot’s scientific journals. This was undertakenby searching the files at Charcot’s library at the Salpêtrière, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and a review of literature. One can distinguish four kinds...

... Abstract From the time he became chef de service at La Salpêtrière Hospital in 1866 until his death in 1893, Jean-Martin Charcot oversaw 32 house officers. Some of them became famous, such as D.M. Bourneville, E. Brissaud, P. Marie and G. Gilles de la Tourette. Others are less well known...

... Abstract A key moment in the history of psychiatry occurred during Charcot’s time at La Salpêtriere. Though his studies on hysteria and hypnotism, the founder of neurology inspired the work of two of his alumni: a Viennese Nervenartz and a French philosopher interested in the dissociation...

... Abstract Benjamin Ball (1833–1893), Alix Joffroy (1844–1908) and Gilbert Ballet (1853–1916) were three pupils of the great Charcot (1825–1893). They were successive holders of the chair for mental illness and encephalon at its creation in 1877 until the First World War: Benjamin Ball from 1877...

...References References 1. Rogers LC, Frykberg RG, Armstrong DG, Boulton AJ, Edmonds M, Van GH, et al: The Charcot foot in diabetes. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 2011;101:437-446. 2. Armstrong DG, Peters EJ: Charcot's arthropathy of the foot. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 2002;92:390-394. 3...

... Abstract Several French physicians of the 19th century are considered to be the pioneers of modern neurology, especially Jean-Martin Charcot. Later, the pupils of Charcot – interns at La Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, including Cornil, Bouchard and Bourneville – went on to make great...