GILLES DE LA TOURETTE, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus (1857 – 1904)
1857 – 1904
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1884
#4848
Jumping, latah, myriachit.
Latah, motor incoordination associated with echolalia and coprolalia, is named “Gilles de la Tourette’s disease” after his classic description of it.
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…