To learn how to treat a disease, one must first learn how to recognize it. The diagnosis is the best trump card in the scheme of treatment.
Pour apprendre à traiter une maladie, il faut apprendre à la reconnaître. Le diagnostic est la meilleure carte dans le jeu du traitement.
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Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825-1893) who turned the vast Salpetriere asylum in Paris into Europe's first neurology clinic and ran it for thirty-three years. Widely called the founder of modern neurology, he named multiple sclerosis, rehabilitated James Parkinson's 1817 essay to define Parkinson's disease, and lent his name to more than fifteen medical eponyms. He trained an extraordinary generation including the young Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Joseph Babinski and Gilles de la Tourette. His public Tuesday lectures on hysteria and hypnosis filled Paris salons in the 1880s but were overturned by Bernheim and the Nancy School in 1889, leaving a legacy of brilliance and theatrical excess in roughly equal measure.
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Jean-Martin Charcot's Other Quotes
In the last analysis, we see only what we are ready to see, what we have been taught to see. We eliminate and ignore everything that is not a part of our prejudices.
Symptoms, in the end, are nothing but a cry from suffering organs.
If you do not have a proven treatment for certain illnesses, bide your time, do what you can, but do no harm to your patients.
Theory is fine, but it does not stop facts from existing.
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