title: A perplexing document in the early history of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: Melotti's rendition of a "Lecture of Charcot" (including a complete translation from the Italian with commentary).
abstract: In 1885, Dr. Guilio Melotti published an Italian translation of a lecture on "Convulsive Tics with Coprolalia and Echolalia" given by Jean-Martin Charcot. Although this lecture often has been cited as an authoritative statement of Charcot's view, until now it has not been translated into English. The lecture presents a number of statements that appear nowhere else in Charcot's published corpus, including some that seem to contradict Charcot's other pronouncements on maladie des tics. Although the Melotti-Charcot lecture may portray Charcot's position accurately in many passages, the article most likely is a compilation from a variety of sources.
authors.affiliation: History of Medicine, San Diego State University, CA, USA.
authors.forename: H I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Kushner
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Luzzatti
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Finger
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000266:history*; D014177:Translations