is one of the immortal figures in the history of medicine. For students of the central nervous system he is honored as the father of neurology, the first to identify and define such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and tabes dorsalis. For psychiatrists he rescued hysteria from the misogynistic mythology under which it had labored for centuries and addressed it as a disease to be studied scientifically. For psychoanalysts he was the mentor of Sigmund Freud, whom he inspired to seek, at first through hypnosis, the psychological causes of hysteria, seemingly