- Georges Gilles de la Tourette
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name = Georges Gilles de la Tourette
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birth_date = birth date|1857|10|30|mf=y
birth_place =Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers , nearPoitou ,France
death_date = death date and age|1904|5|26|1857|10|30|mf=y
death_place =Lausanne ,Switzerland
known_for =Tourette syndrome Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (
October 30 1857 inSaint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers nearPoitou ,France –May 26 ,1904 inLausanne ,Switzerland ) was a French neurologist who is theeponym ofTourette syndrome , a neurological condition.Enersen, Ole Daniel. [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/357.html Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette.] WhoNamedIt.com Retrieved onMay 14 2007 .]In 1873 Tourette began medical studies at
Poitiers . He later moved to Paris where he became a student, amanuensis and house physician of his mentor, the influential contemporary neurologistJean-Martin Charcot , director of theSalpêtrière Hospital. Charcot also helped him to rise in his academic career. Tourette studied and lectured inpsychotherapy ,hysteria and medical and legal ramifications ofmesmerism (modern-dayhypnosis ).Tourette described the symptoms of Tourette syndrome in nine patients in 1884, using the name "maladie des tics". Charcot renamed the syndrome "Gilles de la Tourette's illness" in his honor.
In 1893 (or 1896) a former female patient shot Tourette in the head, claiming he had hypnotized her against her will. Both Tourette and many modern hypnologists state that this is impossible. His mentor, Charcot, had recently died, and his young son had also recently died tragically. After these events he began to have mood swings between depression and
hypomania . Nevertheless, he organized public lectures where he spoke about literacy, mesmerism and theatre.Tourette published an article on hysteria in the
German Army , which angeredBismarck , and a further article about unhygienic conditions in the floating hospitals on the riverThames . WithGabriel Legue he analyzed abbess Jeanne des Anges' account of her hysteria that was allegedly based of her unrequited love for a priestUrbain Grandier , who was later burned for witchcraft.Around 1902 Tourette's condition worsened and he was removed from his post. Gilles de la Tourette died on
May 26 ,1904 in a psychiatric hospital inLausanne ,Switzerland .Writings
* "L'hypnotisme et les états analogues au point de vue médico-légal" (Paris, 1887; 2nd. edition Paris 1889)
* "Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l’hystérie d’après l’enseignement de la Salpêtrière" (Paris 1891)
* "Les actualités médicales, les états neurasthéniques" (Paris 1898)
* "Leçons de clinique thérapeutique sur les maladies du système nerveux" (Paris 1898)
* "Les actualités médicales. Formes cliniques et traitement des myélites syphilitiques" (Paris 1899)
* "La maladie des tics convulsifs" ("La semaine médicale" 1899)References
* Black, KJ. [http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic664.htm Tourette Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders.] "eMedicine" (
March 22 ,2006 ). Retrieved on27 June 2006 .
* Lees. A.J. "Georges Gilles de la Tourette: The Man And His Times" (Paris 1986)
* [http://www.tsa-usa.org/Medical/theman.html Georges Gilles de la Tourette: The Man And His Times] .Tourette Syndrome Association . Retrieved on2007-09-09 .Persondata
NAME=Gilles de la Tourette, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=French physician
DATE OF BIRTH=October 30 ,1857
PLACE OF BIRTH=Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers ,France
DATE OF DEATH=May 26 ,1904
PLACE OF DEATH=Lausanne ,Switzerland
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