Jean-Martin Charcot

JEAN MARTIN CHARCOT (1825-1893)

BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Martin Charcot (French:; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology

He is best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, in particular his work with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes.
Also known as "the founder of modern neurology.
his name has been associated with at least 15 medical eponyms, including Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and Charcot disease.

Charcot has been referred to as "the father of French neurology and one of the world's pioneers of neurology".
His work greatly influenced the developing fields of neurology and psychology

Contribution To Medicine
In addition to providing a complete clinical description coupled with the pathological changes associated with a variety of neurological diseases, allowing for their precise classification, Charcot’s other significant accomplishments include the following:

describing the brain’s vascular supply, differentiating tremors found in Parkinson’s disease with those of patients with multiple sclerosis, differentiating hysteria from epilepsy, being one of the first physicians to set up rehabilitation clinics for the treatment of his patients, and formulating a triad (known as the Biliary Triad) for diagnosing acute cholangitis which consists of right upper quadrant pain, jaundice and fever.

Working at the end of the nineteenth century, the celebrated neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, used this disorder as a prototypic example of the power of his research method, termed "méthode anatomoclinique." Using clinical cases and autopsy material, he showed how anatomical lesions in the nervous system could be .