Some recollections of Prof. Charcot's recent teaching / by F. Parkes Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
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[1893]
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    [Reprinted, by permission, from the Medical Magazine for A^ovember, 1893.] SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF PROF. CHARCOT’S RECENT TEACHING. By Dr. F. PARKES WEBER, M.D. (Camb.), M.R.C.P. As nearly all Charcot’s lectures have been published and can be readily referred to, I propose merely to note some of the features which would specially, attract the attention of an Englishman if present at them. His Tuesday Cliniques at the Salpetriere were always largely attended, and a great number of foreigners availed themselves of this generous instruction. It has been said that a portion of his Tuesday audience was non-medical, and attended merely from curiosity.* Be this as it may, the Professor at any rate addressed himself exclusively to the medical portion of his hearers. During the past year his lectures were chiefly on organic diseases of the nervous system, and he said comparatively little about hysteria, except as regards differential diagnosis. To hypnotism he sometimes alluded, and let it be known that, without questioning its scientific interest, he thought little of its value as a therapeutic agent, even in hysteria. That sense of order and classification, so characteristic of P'rench scientists, seemed in Charcot especially developed. Quite apart from all his original work and that of his pupils. * Would be difficult to prevent at lectures, given gratuitously.