If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived n…

- Jean-Martin Charcot

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

- Jean-Martin Charcot

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

- Jean-Martin Charcot

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

- Jean-Martin Charcot