Jean martin charcot y sigmund freud biography

French neurologist (1825–1893)

Jean-Martin Charcot (French:[ʒɑ̃maʁtɛ̃ʃaʁko]; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology.^[2] He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes.^[3] Charcot is known as "the founder of modern neurology",^[4] and his name has been associated with at least 15 medical eponyms, including various conditions sometimes referred to as Charcot diseases.^[2]

Charcot has been referred to as "the father of French neurology and one of the world's pioneers of neurology".^[5] His work greatly influenced the developing fields of neurology and psychology; modern psychiatry owes much to the work of Charcot and his direct followers.^[6] He was the "foremost neurologist of late nineteenth-century France"^[7] and has been called "the Napoleon of t