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James Parkinson's 1817 seminal article was not well known in France until 1861,
when Jean-Martin Charcot and his friend, Alfred Vulpian, published a detailed
description in French of paralysis agitans.
Their article provided clinical
information to help French physicians make an accurate diagnosis by considering
gait, shaking and rigidity as well as masked facies.
As Charcot always had a
strong desire to teach, this article describes his lessons on Parkinson's disease
from 1868 to 1888, and also examines the teaching approach he used to pass on his
latest findings to his students and colleagues. Charcot also used his role as
thesis advisor to disseminate Parkinson's work, and seven of the theses he
oversaw, which until now have been overlooked, reveal another facet of his
teacher-student relationship. These dissertations provided Charcot with an
opportunity to highlight what he had already identified concerning what is today
referred to as 'Parkinson-plus syndromes'. Finally, this report concludes with an
historical survey of the teaching materials that Paul Richer and Albert Londe
developed for the Master at La Salpetriere to provide him with visual documentation.
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