The performance is inspired by a psychosis diagnosed in 1880 by
French neurologist Jules Cotard, whose patient believed she was organless, dead, and, paradoxically, immortal.
Stettheimer's beloved Aunt Josephine, the first woman medical intern in America, studied with
the French neurologist Dr. Jean Martin Charcot, who believed that domestic interiors reflected the psychology of those who lived inside.
In this publication Darwin uses photographs made by
French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne of «The Old Man».
It was originally known as «Pierre Marie Disease» after
the French neurologist who first correlated the clinical and pathological findings in 1886.
ALS was first found in 1869 by
French neurologist Jean - Martin Charcot, but it wasn't until 1939 that Lou Gehrig brought national and international attention to the disease.
Since
the French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette first described his namesake condition 125 years ago, scientists have puzzled over the cause.
(1872) This is a wood engraving by James Davis Cooper of a photograph by
French neurologist Guillaume - Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne.
This notion dates back to 1861, when the pioneering
French neurologist Paul Broca found lesions in the frontal lobe of a speechless man.
In 1880,
French neurologist Jules Cotard first described the mysterious symptoms of a 43 - year - old woman who believed that she had no brain.