Leçons du Mardi à la Salpêtrière. Professeur Charcot. Policliniques [Policlinique] 1887-1888. Notes de Cours de MM. Blin, Charcot et Colin.(Publications du Progrès Médical). [ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT REPRODUCED]. [26 LESSONS].

Paris, Progrès Médical; A. (Adrien) Delahaye & Emile Lecrosnier, 1887. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Twenty-six parts in one volume. Paginated consecutively. Crown quarto. Pp. (iv), 638. Some 101 text figures. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary three-quarters brown calf and matching pebbled boards, spine gilt, extremities bit rubbed, name clipped-off first blank leaf and corner of title-page, back inner hinge slightly cracked. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Of utmost rarity. The extremely rare first edition which reproduces lithographically the entire original manuscript of notes taken during these lectures by Charcot himself, Blin, and Holin, "being a transcription of Charcot's famous Tuesday morning clinical lectures." (Norman 451). Comprising of 26 individual lessons delivered between 1887 and 1888. A second edition, set in type, appeared in 1892, co-published with Babé but without the participation of Adrien Delahaye & Emile Lecrosnier. The eminent French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), one of the greatest of all neurologists, created at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris the greatest neurological clinic of modern times. There, he delivered his renowned clinical lectures and demonstrations to postgraduate students and invited practitioners. He was a pioneer of psychotherapy and left many memorable descriptions of nervous disorders. An excellent idea of his work is gained by perusal of these lectures. It is said that Sigmund Freud owned a small lithographic reproduction of the famous painting "A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière" by André Brouillet (1857-1914) which depicts Charcot delivering a lecture to a group of students, of whom many of them became later renowned physicians. Freud himself translated Charcot's work into German and added a preface. E-2