CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)

1859 CE

#2905

Sur la claudication intermittente.

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

1864 CE

#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 CE

#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 CE

#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 CE

#4698

Histologie de la sclérose en plaques.

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

1868 CE

#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 CE

#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 CE

#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 CE–1887 CE

#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 dorsa…

1872 CE–1887 CE

#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 CE

#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 frequen…

1874 CE

#3383

Vertiges ab aure laesa (maladie de Menière).

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

1876 CE–1880 CE

#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 Sal…

1876 CE–1880 CE

#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 mo&euml…

1877 CE

#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 CE

#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 CE–1891 CE

#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 M…

1887 CE

#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 CE–1918 CE

#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 CE

#6606

Les difformes et les malades dans l’art.

Reprinted Amsterdam, B.M.Israël, 1972

1895 CE

#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 CE

#11127

La foi qui guérit.

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

1995 CE

#11456

Charcot: Constructing neurology

An essential account of the life and contributions of Charcot.

2012 CE

#11455

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

2019 CE

#11453

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