Friday, July 12, 2013

Charcot, Augustine

Charcot, a lesson: a hysteric (Marie "Blanche" Wittman) demonstrates fainting:
















from “Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière” (Jean Martin Charcot,1878) (Augustine)




















review of a book about Charcot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/books/review/book-review-medical-muses-hysteria-in-nineteenth-century-paris-by-asti-hustvedt.html?_r=0