This clipart of the French flag was taken from the CIA World Factbook website. There have been many brilliant French scientists, including Giles Tourette. The Tourette syndrome was named after this 19th century neurologist.
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Phillipe Pinel was a French psychiatrist in the 18th century. He thought that an abnormality in the brain caused mental disease. He was regarded as a reformer, advocating humane treatment for the insane.
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Pinel worked in the asylums of Paris. He freed patients from their chains. Unfortunately he died in 1826.
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Marie Curie was born in 19th century Poland. Later she became a student in Paris. She won two Nobel Prizes for her work on the science of radioactivity. Unfortunately she died from leukemia as a result of radiation poisoning. He work killed her. Another picture of her is shown on the Women page of this site.
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Shown here is a portrait of Dr. Gachet, van Gogh's doctor. The portrait was made in 1890, which was the year van Gogh shot himself in the chest and later died. His brother Theo was at his side when he died. Although van Gogh was Dutch, he was hospitalized in an asylum in France.
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This drawing of Gall is presented courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. I considered listing him with the false profits, but he was partly right. Gall was one of the early scientists who favored brain localization of fuction, which is now known to be correct. Unfortunately this spawned phrenology, which is a bogus technique that has been discarded. Quacks looked for bumps on the patient's head for clues to the brain! However, the bumps were on the skull, which tells little about the brain inside except for the size.
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This is Dr. Paul Broca, who discovered the center for speech in the brain in the 19th century.
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Dr. Claude Bernard was a brilliant physiologist in the 19th century. Pasteur was French, but his work, although brilliant, is not related to this website. Bernard's work is more related because Bernard did not work on microbiology as Pasteur did.
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Shown here is Maurice Dide, a famous French psychiatrist and neuropathologist who was born in 1873 and died in 1944. An article on him was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which is published by the AMA. This website lists both brilliant scientists and goats. Dide was one of the brilliant scientists.
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This clipart of Charcot was taken from the University of Illinois Chicago neurology website. Chrcot was interested in both neurology and psychiatry. He described "hysteria" and was one of Freud's teachers. His methods were not the same as those later used by Freud, however. Charcot (1825-1893) used more neurological methods.
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