Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Jun 2014)

Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Brazil

  • Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive,
  • Carlos Frederico Leite de Souza Lima,
  • Plínio Marcos Garcia de Lima,
  • Francisco Manoel Branco Germiniani,
  • Renato Puppi Munhoz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0004-282X20140086
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 72, no. 8
pp. 640 – 642

Abstract

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Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a neurologist from the famous Salpêtrière school and a renowned maritime explorer, visited Brazil twice. The first visit was in 1903, when the first French Antarctic expedition, traveling aboard the ship Français, made a very short stopover in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. The second took place in 1908, during the famous voyage of the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic, when Charcot and his crew stayed in the city of Rio de Janeiro for eight days.

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