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Jean-Martin Charcot
Charcot
also: Шарко
French neurologist (1825-1893), renowned for his clinical work on hysteria at the Salpetriere hospital in Paris. Chekhov, a trained physician, invokes his real authority in a mock-medical joke about a nagging wife.
Reading notes
- Two Novels §7 Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), the celebrated French neurologist famous for his work on hysteria at the Salpetriere; Chekhov, a physician himself, invokes his real authority to lend absurd clinical weight to a joke about nagging wives.
- Philosophical Definitions of Life §17 Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot, the French neurologist renowned for his clinical work on hysteria at the Salpetriere -- a real medical authority Chekhov, himself a physician, liked to invoke for comic mock-diagnoses.