Salpetriere Collection

Paris Salpetriere
The manufactory of saltpeter (potassium nitrate) used to make gunpowder : in the 19th century it will become one of Pariss leading hospitals, associated with Charcot etc

Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris
The neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in a consulting room of the mental hospital Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. Patients wait for treatment with an electric current. Date: 1885

VICTIMS OF HASHISH
Four North African victims of hashish, driven out of their minds by the drug and brought under the care of Dr Auguste Voisin of the Salpetriere, Paris. Date: 1876

INSANITY HYSTERIA 1881
A patient at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, depicted in the throes of a demoniac attack Date: 1885

Charcot and Asylum Patient
UNE LECON CLINIQUE A LA SALPETRIERE J M Charcot demonstrates the symptoms of hysteria with a patient under hypnosis Date: 1887

1881 / Hysterical Patient
Mental patient at La Salpetriere, sitting on her bed in phase gaie

Jean-Etienne Esquirol, French psychiatrist
Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol, French psychiatrist, known for his reforms in the treatment of mental patients. He worked at the Salptrire Hospital in Paris

Joseph Beau, Medical
JOSEPH HONORE SIMON BEAU French medical : anatomist at La Salpetriere and other Paris hospitals. Date: 1806 - 1865

Hysteria Patient / 1887
Hysteria patient at La Salpetriere lying in an ecstatic state, with her arms crossed over her body. Date: 1887

Hysterical Anesthesia
Demonstration of anaesthesia in a patient at La Salpetriere, Paris, while in a state of hysteria Date: 1887

Hypnotised Subject - 1
A hypnotised mental patient at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, responds to a distressing suggestion Date: 1885

Altered State
Charcot induces an altered state of catalepsy with the aid of electric light at La Salpetriere, Paris Date: 1879

Dr. Vigourouxs electro-diagnostic at La Salpetriere
Doctor Vigourouxs electro-diagnostic at La Salpetriere

Lunatic Asylum
LA SALPETRIERE Asylum founded in 1656, used especially for female patients, and later noted for the studies of hysteria by Charcot and others

French Mental Patients
Three of Voisins patients at the Salpetriere, Paris, cured with morphine - Mme Bau.. before and after treatment; Mme Fal.. in a state; Mme Gog... before / after

Hypnotised Subject - 2
A hypnotised mental patient at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, responds to the suggestion that she blow a kiss

Hypnotised Subject - 4
Six hysteria patients at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, are simultaneously put into the hypnotic state by a sudden unexpected sound

Hypnotised Subject - 9
Exciting the cubital (forearm) nerve in a hypnotised subject at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris

Insanity / Hysteria / 1881
Mental patient at La Salpetriere, going through the phase of large movements

LA Salpetriere, Paris
Inmates of La Salpetriere, one of Pariss asylums for the mentally afflicted : later in the century this will be where Charcot conducts his influential researches

Salpetriere Photography
PHOTOGRAPHING THE PATIENT At La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, doctors working with Charcot obtain photographic documentation of hysteria patients in various states

French Mental Patients 2
Three of Voisins patients at the Salpetriere, classed by him as lypemaniaque (term not in any dictionary !) The lower pictures show Mme Ball... before & after treatment

Scene at La Salpetriere in Paris
A scene at La Salpetriere, Paris, where Philippe Pinel orders the manacles removed from the mental patients

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