La Salpêtrière

Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des Hôspitaux de Paris at La Salpêtrière .

The Matlock Bank water cure, very popular with female clients, boasted warm-water douches, electrotherapy , and electric baths.

At La Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, patients classified as non-psychotic epileptics and hysterics were moved into the Quarter for Pure Epileptics, with Jean-Martin Charcot as the senior physician.

French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began developing a systematic theory of hysteria.

Electromechanical vibrators were probably first used medically in the treatment of hysteria at La Salpêtrière in Paris.

Jean-Martin Charcot gave increasingly popular public lectures on hysteria at La Salpêtrière in Paris.

The Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System was established at La Salpêtrière by France's Chamber of Deputies , making neurology a separate discipline; Jean-Martin Charcot was appointed as first Chair in 1882.

Sigmund Freud worked with Jean-Martin Charcot at La Salpêtrière in Paris.