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Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist and pathologist, 1887. Charcot (1825-1893) giving a clinical lecture at the Salpetriere hospital, Paris, where he worked from 1862. Dr Joseph Babinski who in 1893 succeeded Charcot as chief physician, holds the hysterical patient, while Mme Bottard, the chief nurse, looks on. From Scientific American. (New York, 1887).