Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Brazil

• Main Authors: Teive,Hélio Afonso Ghizoni, Lima,Carlos Frederico Leite de Souza, Lima,Plínio Marcos Garcia de, Germiniani,Francisco Manoel Branco, Munhoz,Renato Puppi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO 2014
• Subjects: neurology; maritime; explorer; Antarctic; Brazil; Charcot; Pourquoi Pas; Pourquoi-Pas; Pourquoi-Pas?; SalpÊtriÈre; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000800640

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.