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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
Robert-Fleury, Tony, 1837-1911.Date: [1876?]Reference: 799213i- Archives and manuscripts
Terrillon, Octave Roche Simon (1844-1895), surgeon at the Salpétrière Hospital, Paris
Date: late 19th centuryReference: MS.7705/31-33Part of: Miscellany: French, 18th-20th centuries
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Sir Arthur Hurst with a group of British and Parisian doctors, on the occasion of his visit to the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris. Process print, 1928.
Date: [1928]Reference: 569277i
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M0005197: Reunion of neurologists at the Salpetriere hospital, Paris
Date: 26 May 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/42/34Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris: as seen from the river. Line engraving by Perelle.
Perelle, Adam, 1638-1695.Reference: 21737i