CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)

1859

#2905

Sur la claudication intermittente.

Charcot was among the first to report intermittent claudication in man.

1864

#4498

Contributions à l’étude des altérations anatomiques de la goutte.

Charcot and Cornil gave an important description of the renal lesions in gout.

1866

#4775

Douleurs fulgurantes de l’ataxie sans incoordination des mouvements; sclérose commençante des cordons postérieurs de la moëlle épinière.

First clinical description of the electric pains in tabes.

1867

#2222

Leçons sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques.

Charcot inaugurated a course of study of geriatrics, at the Salpêtrière, in 1866; his lectures are embodied in the above work. English translation, 1881.

1868

#4698

Histologie de la sclérose en plaques.

An important description of multiple sclerosis. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1868

#4337

Sur quelques arthropathies qui paraissent dépendre d’une lésion du cerveau ou de la moëlle épinière.

Charcot called attention to tabetic arthropathy, a condition which has since borne his name, while the tabetic joints he so well described are now known as “Charcot’s joints”.

1869

#4740

Deux cas d’atrophie musculaire progressive avec lésions de la substance grise et des faisceaux antéro-latéraux de la moëlle épinière.

Description of the lesions of the spinal cord in muscular atrophy.

1870

#4665

Une observation de paralysie infantile s’accompagnant d’une altération des cornes antérieures de la substance grise de la moëlle.

First demonstration of the atrophy of the anterior horns of the spinal cord in infantile paralysis, confirming earlier suggestions of von Heine and Duchenne.

1872 –1887

#4546

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière.

An excellent idea of Charcot’s work is gained by perusal of his Leçons, dealing with his teaching on nervous disorders. In the second volume, pp. 1-72, is a classic account of the anomalies of tabes dorsalis. Charcot …

1872 –1887

#4995

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière. 3 vols.

Charcot’s pioneering research on the application of hypnosis to the psychoneuroses brought this subject to the attention of the scientific community.

1874

#4742

Des amyotrophies spinales chroniques.

Charcot differentiated between the ordinary (Aran–Duchenne) type of muscular atrophy and the rarer amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, (ALS), at one time called “Charcot’s disease,” but more frequently designated today as …

1874

#3383

Vertiges ab aure laesa (maladie de Menière).

Charcot completed the description of the syndrome first described by Menière.

1876 –1880

#4558

Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau.

Charcot is especially notable for his important study of the localization of functions in diseases of the brain. Volume two is entitled Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau et de la moëlle épinièr…

1876 –1880

#4558.1

Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot. 3 vols.

A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories; the third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot’s assistant at the Salpêtriè…

1877

#4216.2

Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins.

Charcot defined “scarlatinous nephritis” and “amyloid kidney” as distinct pathological entities. English translation, New York, 1878.

1886

#4749

Sur une forme particuliére d’atrophie musculaire progressive souvent familiale débutant par les pieds et les jambes et atteignant plus tard les mains.

First description of the peroneal form of muscular atrophy, the so-called Charcot–Marie–Tooth type.

1886 –1891

#84

Œuvres complètes ed J.-M. Charcot. Recueillies et publiées par D. M. Bourneville [and others]. 9 vols.

Charcot, famous teacher at La Salpêtrière, created there the greatest neurological clinic of his time. He was a pioneer of psychotherapy and left many memorable descriptions of nervous disorders. Pierre Marie, who die…

1887

#6605

Les démoniaques dans l’art.

Charcot was a talented artist; he collaborated with Richer, artist at La Salpêtrière, in the production of interesting books on disease and deformity, and aspects of medicine and art.

1888 –1918

#4575

NOUVELLE Iconographie de la Salpêtriere. 28 vols.

Henry Meige, Richer, and other pupils of Charcot published many valuable studies of the constitutional aspects of nervous diseases in the above work, a series unique in the history of medicine and of great value for t…

1889

#6606

Les difformes et les malades dans l’art.

Reprinted Amsterdam, B.M.Israël, 1972

1895

#1423

Les centres moteurs corticaux chez l’homme.

Three papers by Charcot and Pitres in 1877, 1878, and 1883 left no doubt as to the existence of cortical motor centres in man. These were later published in book form (above).

1897

#11127

La foi qui guérit.

As one of his last works Charcot published this 38-page pamphlet on faith healing.

1995

#11456

Charcot: Constructing neurology

An essential account of the life and contributions of Charcot.

2012

#11455

Charcot in Morocco. Introduction, notes and translation by Toby Gelfand.

2019

#11453

Charcot's studies on hysteria: Five case histories, 1870-1893.