Georges 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 at Loudun, † May 22 1904 in Prilly in Lausanne) was a French neurologist and forensic pathologist.

Life

Tourette began with 16 years of medical studies in Poitiers and continued them in Paris. In 1885 he completed his studies, in 1893 and 1900, hospital doctor lecturer. He was one of Jean -Martin Charcot's favorite disciples, his doctor and self-appointed secretary. Charcot promoted the academic career Tourettes in return.

Tourette dealt initially focusing on new forms of therapy such as vibration therapy and hypnosis. Sigmund Freud also attended lectures Tourettes.

1896 Tourette of a paranoid young woman, a patient at the Salpêtrière, shot in the head. She claimed she had been hypnotized and to have them lost their health in spite of himself. The process then attracted much attention and fueled the notion that incitement to criminal acts under hypnosis were possible, a thesis that Tourette refused vehemently. He was only slightly injured and survived the attack. In the aftermath Tourette suffered from severe mood swings, which was due to syphilis disease. From 1901 he was no longer able to work and then died in Switzerland at the psychiatric hospital Cery in the community Prilly in Lausanne at the consequences of neurosyphilis.

Tourette provided fundamental contributions to the hysteria and medical-legal aspects of hypnosis. In 1884, he began a study of nine patients with compulsive tics, on the day named after him Tourette syndrome.

Works

• L' hypnotisme et les états analogues au point de vue médico- légal. Paris, 1887
• Traité clinique et de l' thérapeutique hystérie l' enseignement d'après de la Salpêtrière. Paris, 1891.
• Études sur la marche cliniques & physiologiques. Paris, 1885
• Leçons de clinique sur les maladies du thérapeutique système nerveux. Paris, 1898.
• Les actualités médicales. Formes et traitement cliniques of myélites syphilitiques. Paris, 1899.
• La maladie des tic convulsifs. La semaine médicale, 1899, 19: 153-156.