Medical Specialties
Neurology
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Origin Emerged as a distinct clinical specialty in the nineteenth century, with the Paris school led by Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpetriere central to its formation.
Neurology is the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system, the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. It developed as a distinct clinical discipline in the nineteenth century, closely associated with the Paris school around Jean-Martin Charcot, which established systematic clinical and pathological correlation of nervous disease. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Origin PeriodEmerged as a distinct clinical specialty in the nineteenth century, with the Paris school led by Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpetriere central to its formation. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Neurology is the certified diagnostic specialty this broader translational field feeds and draws from.
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The Canon of Medicine includes a systematic account of the brain and nervous system and their disorders, drawing on and extending Galenic neuroanatomy.
Jean-Martin Charcot's clinical demonstrations at Salpetriere in the second half of the nineteenth century are a founding episode of modern neurology, well established in general histories of medicine.
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