These figures, compiled by the student of
Charcot, Paul Richer capture the deformation position and progression of
untreated Parkinson's disease more than a decade. As director of the
medical unit at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, Charcot had access to
a large number of patients living in chronic central. Because patients
were state charges, autopsies were performed regularly, although Charcot
could not identify pathological lesion in Parkinson's disease
