title: Did Géricault's "Madwoman Obsessed With Gambling" have Parkinson's disease?
abstract: Gericault's 1822 historical depiction of this madwoman with gambling mania was one of ten paintings commissioned by the Salpetriere to show psychiatric disease in facial appearance (physiognomies). The author speculates on a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, a disorder only recently described by James Parkinson (1817), but probably already known to French Neurology.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neurology, Queen Square and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK. danhealy@doctors.org.uk
authors.forename: Daniel G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Healy
mesh_terms: D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D005715:Gambling; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history*; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000266:history*