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student has mastered the more elementary steps. If 

 he has not, there are laboratories where he can familiarize 

 himself with the structure of the nervous system and 

 histological technique. Likewise he will find practical 

 courses in methods of clinical examination, diagnosis, 

 and treatment. Such courses are given especially in 

 connection with the Clinic for Diseases of the Nervous 

 System at the Salpetriere, where the material is pecu- 

 liarly rich. 



The more advanced student will wish to spend his 

 time with the leaders of French neurology in the various 

 hospitals and in the laboratories for research and patho- 

 logical work. Here it is difficult to separate the man from 

 the institution, and consequently we shall make an 

 attempt to consider them together, a quite illogical, 

 but we think useful method. And first of all, 



La Salpetriere (Hospice de). This is a huge infirmary 

 or poorhouse for women. But it is on a hospital basis, 

 divided into well organized services with complete at- 

 tending and house staffs, the patients studied and re- 

 corded as in any modern hospital. It was here that 

 CHARCOT pursued his epoch-making researches and 

 where he finally induced the faculty to establish the 

 far-famed university clinic for diseases of the nervous 

 system. Later, to this service were added two large 

 wards for men. On this terrain Charcot developed 

 what was known as the School of Charcot, and here 

 delivered the scintillating clinical lectures which have 

 been the admiration and despair of other teachers and 

 have remained a tradition and an example for his 

 followers. 



On his death in 1893, he was succeeded temporarily 

 (two years) by the brilliant and beloved BRISSAUD, 

 whose two volumes of lectures here delivered are neurol- 

 ogical gems. The productive RAYMOND followed him; 



