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Jean-Martin Charcot
(29 Nov 1825 - 16 Aug 1893)
French neurologist noted for his studies of hysteria and hypnotism (which influenced his pupil, Sigmund Freud) sclerosis, locomotor ataxia and senile diseases. Charcot went on coastal mapping expeditions to the Antarctic. He also later made oceanographic studies.
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Science Quotes by Jean-Martin Charcot (1 quote)
How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.
— Jean-Martin Charcot
In Fielding Hudson Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1929), 15.
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- 29 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Charcot's birth.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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