psychosis, shot Gilles de la Tourette in the neck, claiming one of his colleagues had hypnotized her against her will. His mentor, Charcot, had died recently, and his young son had also died recently. Although he recovered from the shooting and continued to work and organize lectures, after these events, Gilles de la Tourette began to display symptoms of severe depression. After 1893, his mental health noticeably declined. In 1901, Charcot's son, Jean-Baptiste, convinced Gilles de la Tourette to travel to Switzerland on a ruse, and had him committed to a psychiatric hospital, where Gilles de la Tourette was diagnosed with tertiary syphilis. His condition worsened and he was forced to resign. His wife and colleagues were not forthcoming about the causes of his internment. He died on 22 May 1904 with advanced dementia at the Lausanne Psychiatric Hospital in Cery from what was labeled a status seizure, and that his wife described as apoplexy. Lees (2019) states that "Gilles de la Tourette died of general paralysis of the insane (neurosyphilis)". Writings Gilles de la Tourette published sixteen papers on hysteria, including: Les actualités médicales, les états neurasthéniques (Paris 1898) Leçons de clinique thérapeutique sur les maladies du système nerveux (Paris 1898) L'hypnotisme et les états analogues au point de vue médico-légal (Paris, 1887; 2nd. edition Paris 1889) Les actualités médicales. Formes cliniques et traitement des myélites syphilitiques' convulsifs (La semaine médicale 1899) Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l'hystérie d'après l'enseignement de la Salpêtrière (Paris 1891) Notes References Books Walusinski O (2019). Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the Eponym, a Biography. Oxford University Press. External links 1857 births 1904 deaths People from Vienne People with mood disorders People with traumatic brain injuries French neurologists Tourette syndrome French shooting survivors French medical writers Amanuenses 19th-century French physicians Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur