posted on 2017-12-13, 02:45authored byHélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Paula Marques, Francisco Manoel Branco Germiniani, Olivier Walusinski
ABSTRACT Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of modern neurology and leading figure in international neurology in the 19th century, died on August 16, 1893, in the province of Morvan in the French countryside, at the age of 67. The funeral service was held in Paris at the La Salpêtrière Hospital, and Charcot was buried in Montmartre cemetery in the same city.