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Figure 3:
Charcot, the father of neurology,
celebrated on a French stamp issued in 1960
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Born Paris 1825.
Worked in the Hôpital Salpêtrière, Paris.
Notable students of Charcot included, Binet and Freud.
- worked on hysteria
- 1881
- described the knee joint in neuro arthropathy.
- 1883
- description of Charcot foot in patients with Tabes
Dorsalis.
- Charcot's joints
- Painless flail joints often with an effusion
- Ankle joint
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Shoulder joint
- Syringomyelia
- Charcot's hysterical blue oedema
- A limb left dependent and not
used becomes swollen and blue.
Adrian P. Ireland
