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- Carlos Henrique Camargo, Francisco
Germiniani, Olivier Walusinski, Andrew Lees and
Helio Afonso Teive
- April 24, 2017
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- Abstract
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- Objective: In this historical review
we present and locate the addresses of the
houses of these famous Parisian neurologists
from the late XIX century.
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- Background: In the late nineteenth
century, Paris was the reference centre of
Neurology in the world, particularly the group
based on the Salpêtrière Hospital,
led by Professor Charcot, who was arguably the
most celebrated neurologist in Europe. At that
time, Charcot and the triumvirate of his most
famous pupils, Pierre Marie, Joseph Babinski and
Gilles de la Tourette, lived in different
streets of Paris, predominantly in a small
cluster in the districts known as 7éme
and 8éme arrondissements (7th and 8th
neighbourhoods).
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- Design/Methods: A historical
review.
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- Results: Although the casual traveler might
miss relevant addresses of historical figures
when doing a cursory stroll through the streets
of Paris, to the Neurology-oriented history
buff, the City of Lights is full of
opportunities to reminisce about and revisit the
homes and stomping grounds of some of
Neurology's most prominent personae. We review
and present the addresses of the houses of
Charcot and three of his most important pupils,
Pierre Marie, Joseph Babinski and Gilles de la
Tourette, which were clustered in the
7ème and 8ème arrondissements (7th
and 8th neighbourhoods).
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- Conclusions: Charcot and his
triumvirate of favourite pupils lived in the
refined 7éme and 8éme
arrondissements of Paris, which was arguably the
epicentre of Fin de Siècle
Neurology.
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