Migraine: Clinical and research aspects. Edited by J. N. Blau Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 693 pp, illustrated, $79.50

✍ Scribed by James W. Lance

• Book ID: 101465736
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410240623

✦ Synopsis

prominent social figures or celebrities in the arts to be part of the audience. Later in the evening some of the more famous visitors would be invited to dinner at Charcot's home.

Christopher Goetz, neurologist and historian, has translated portions of nine of the Tuesday Lessons offered by Charcot from 1887 to 1888. Included among these are lectures covering syphilis, locomotor ataxia, ambulatory automatism, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, hystero-epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Charcot's presentations are modern in their style and organization. He stressed the typical characteristics of the disease or the "archetype" and then expanded his discussion to include its variations. Much emphasis was placed on history taking. Clinical findings were demonstrated and systematically reviewed, and a diagnosis was made. Charcot stressed