Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Brazil

• Published in: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
• Main Authors: Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Carlos Frederico Leite de Souza Lima, Plínio Marcos Garcia de Lima, Francisco Manoel Branco Germiniani, Renato Puppi Munhoz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2014
• Subjects: neurologia; explorador; marítimo; Antártica; Brasil; Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry; RC321-571; Antarctic; Charcot; Pourquoi Pas; Pourquoi-Pas; Pourquoi-Pas?; SalpÊtriÈre; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0004-282X20140086; https://doaj.org/article/11e9daff79e74e3586ca2724a2a7329e

Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a neurologist from the famous Salpêtrière school and a renowned maritime explorer, visited Brazil twice. The first visit was in 1903, when the first French Antarctic expedition, traveling aboard the ship Français, made a very short stopover in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. The second took place in 1908, during the famous voyage of the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic, when Charcot and his crew stayed in the city of Rio de Janeiro for eight days.