![]() ![]() Bottom: Contortion phase l’arc de cercle (left). Epileptiform period – phase of tonic immobility or tetanism (right). Top: Passionate attitude period – sad phase (left). Blanche (Marie) Wittman to illustrate the great hysterical crises in different periods 4 4. Paris: Adrien Delahaye et Émile Lecrosnier 1881., with 105 figures and nine engravings ( Figure 1). Études cliniques sur l’hystero-épilepsie ou grande hysterie. It is worth mentioning that Richer was profoundly disappointed to find out that his name appeared nowhere.Įncouraged by Bourneville and under Jean-Martin Charcot’s direction, Richer began working on his thesis, which was defended in 1879, and served as the basis for the book entitled Clinical Studies on Hysteric-Epilepsy or Great Hysteria 3 3. Recherches sur l’anatomie et la physiologie du coeur. In the next year, Marc Sée published Research on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart, a 90-page book illustrated with 26 beautiful drawings by Richer, showing the heart from various angles 2 2. Following Charcot: a forgotten history of neurology and psychiatry. The master immediately proposed that Paul join him at La Salpêtrière to finish his house officership 1 1. The young medical student lacked any formal artistic training, but came to Jean-Martin Charcot’s attention in 1874, when Charcot chaired the committee for Henri Meillet’s thesis, entitled Permanent Deformations of the Hand from the Point of View of Medical Semiotics, and was captivated by the beauty of Paul Richer’s drawings. Watching the stonemasons repairing the structure, as he passed by, certainly contributed to Richer’s fondness for sculpture 1 1. When he was young, every day on his way to school, Paul would go past the famous cathedral embellished with countless figures, which stimulated his imagination. Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer was born on February 17, 1849, to a family of linen and fabric merchants in Chartres – a region in Centre-Val de Loire, south-west of Paris. ![]()
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