the United States National Library of Medicine. Charcot Island in Antarctica was discovered by his son, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named the Island in honor of his father. The Charcot Award is given every two years by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation for a lifetime of outstanding research into the understanding or treatment of multiple sclerosis. Bibliography Neurologie, [s.l.], [s.n.], [s.d.], manuscrit de 395 feuillets (fonds : manuscrits des leçons de J.M.Charcot). Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques. Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1874. Exposé des titres scientifiques. Versailles: Imprimeries Cerf, 1878. Sur les divers états nerveux déterminés par l'hypnotisation chez les hystériques. In Comptes Rendues hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 94 (1882): 403-405. Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux. Paris: Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1885-1887. Avec Paul Richer, Les Démoniaques dans l'art. Paris: Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1887. Avec Paul Richer, Les Difformes et les Malades dans l'art, Lecrosnier et Babé, 1889. La foi qui guérit [archive]. Paris: Felix Alcan, 1897. 38 p. Quotations "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." "To learn how to treat a disease, one must learn how to recognize it. The diagnosis is the best trump in the scheme of treatment." "Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs." "If you do not have a proven treatment for certain illnesses, bid your time, do what you can, but do not harm your patients." "...perfectly legitimate pathological phenomena, in which the will of the patient counts for nothing, absolutely nothing"; in reference to the clinical features of hysteria. See also A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière Notes References Harris, J.C., "A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière", Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol.62, No.5, (May 2005), pp. 470–472. Further reading Alvarado, C., "Nineteenth-Century Hysteria and Hypnosis: A Historical Note on Blanche Wittmann", Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol.37, No.1, (May 2009), pp.21-36. External links Biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 1825 births 1893 deaths Burials at Montmartre Cemetery Physicians from Paris 19th-century French physicians French hypnotists French neurologists French neuroscientists Members of the French Academy of Sciences 19th-century French people Tourette syndrome History of psychiatry French psychologists Charcot family Commandeurs of