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Marie Wittman

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French woman known as one of the hysteria patients of Jean-Martin Charcot

FranceLived 1859 to 1912 · aged 53
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Marie "Blanche" Wittman was a French woman known as one of the hysteria patients of Jean-Martin Charcot. She was institutionalized in La Salpêtrière in 1877, and was treated by Charcot until his death in 1893.

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Wittman photographed in a cataleptic pose around 1880Wittman photographed in a cataleptic pose around 1880Wittman (in white) depicted in A Clinical Lesson at the SalpêtrièreWittman (in white) depicted in A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière

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Marie "Blanche" Wittman was a French woman known as one of the hysteria patients of Jean-Martin Charcot. She was institutionalized in La Salpêtrière in 1877, and was treated by Charcot until his death in 1893. She later became a radiology assistant at the hospital, which resulted in amputations of her arms due to radiation poisoning.

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France
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Lived 1859 to 1912 · aged 53
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