Georges Gilles de la Tourette

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Gilles de la Tourette

Georges Gilles de la Tourette (full name Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette ; born October 30, 1857 in Saint Gervais les Trois Clochers near Loudun , † May 22, 1904 in Prilly near Lausanne ) was a French neurologist and forensic medicine.

Life

Tourette began studying medicine in Poitiers at the age of 16 and continued it in Paris. In 1885 he graduated, became a hospital doctor in 1893 and a lecturer in 1900. He was one of Jean-Martin Charcot's favorite students, his family doctor and self-appointed secretary. In return, Charcot promoted Tourette's academic career.

Tourette initially dealt intensively with new forms of therapy such as vibration therapy and hypnosis. Even Sigmund Freud visited Tourettes lectures.

In 1896 Tourette was shot in the head by a paranoid young woman, a patient at the Hôpital Salpêtrière . She claimed to have been hypnotized against her will and to have lost her health. The incident caused a sensation and nurtured the idea that it was possible to incite criminal acts under hypnosis, a thesis that Tourette vehemently rejected. He was only slightly injured and survived the attack. In the following years Tourette suffered from severe mood swings, which was due to a syphilis disease . From 1901 he was no longer able to work and died in Switzerland in the psychiatric clinic Cery in Prilly near Lausanne of the consequences of neurosyphilis .

Tourette made fundamental contributions to the hysteria and medical law aspects of hypnosis. In 1884 he began a study of nine patients with compulsive tics about Tourette's syndrome, which was named after him .

Works

  • L'hypnotisme et les états analogues au point de vue médico-légal. Paris, 1887
  • Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l'hystérie d'après l'enseignement de la Salpêtrière. Paris, 1891.
  • Études cliniques & physiologiques sur la marche. Paris, 1885
  • 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 tic convulsifs. La semaine médicale, 1899, 19: pp. 153-156.

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