Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Gilles de la Tourette was born the oldest of four children on 30 October 1857 During 1873, Gilles de la Tourette began medical studies at Poitiers at the age of sixteen. In 1881, he relocated to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Laennec Hospital. ==Career==

'' (1887), French painter André Brouillet depicts a medical lecture with Jean-Martin Charcot and Gilles de la Tourette (seated at front) Gilles de la Tourette began his internship in 1884, working "at a superhuman pace, publishing, teaching and practicing clinical medicine". Charcot also helped him to advance in his academic career. Gilles de la Tourette studied and lectured in psychotherapy, hysteria, and medical and legal ramifications of mesmerism (modern-day hypnosis). Colleagues and historians have described him as a "highly intelligent, if irascible, character". Charcot renamed the syndrome "Gilles de la Tourette's illness" in his honor, == Personal life and decline==

Gilles de la Tourette married his cousin Marie Detrois (1867–1922) on 2 August 1887 in Loudon. Paul Brouardel and Charcot were witnesses. They had four children, three of whom lived to adulthood. In 1893, Rose Kamper, a former female patient, who was later revealed to have psychosis, shot Gilles de la Tourette in the neck, claiming one of his colleagues had hypnotized her against her will. His condition worsened and he was forced to resign. Lees (2019) states that "Gilles de la Tourette died of general paralysis of the insane (neurosyphilis)". ==Writings==

Gilles de la Tourette published sixteen papers on hysteria, including: • Les actualités médicales, les états neurasthéniques (Paris 1898) • Leçons de clinique thérapeutique sur les maladies du système nerveux (Paris 1898) • ''L'hypnotisme et les états analogues au point de vue médico-légal'' (Paris, 1887; 2nd. edition Paris 1889) • ''Les actualités médicales. Formes cliniques et traitement des myélites syphilitiques' convulsifs (La semaine médicale'' 1899) • ''Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l'hystérie d'après l'enseignement de la Salpêtrière'' (Paris 1891) ==See also==