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Charcot

noun
1.
French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893).  Synonym: Jean Martin Charcot.



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"Charcot" Quotes from Famous Books



... CHARCOT, JEAN MARTIN, a French pathologist; made a special study of nervous diseases, including hypnotism, and was eminent for his works in connection ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... the problem of knowledge in terms exactly the reverse of those in which it seems "natural" to put it was originally suggested to Bergson by his study of the important work on amnesia carried out by Charcot and his pupils, and also by such evidence as was to be had at the time when he wrote on the curious memory phenomena revealed by the use of hypnotism and by cases of spontaneous dissociation. It is impossible to prove experimentally ...
— The Misuse of Mind • Karin Stephen


Words linked to "Charcot" :   neurologist, brain doctor


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