Abstract
Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904) was a French neurologist and personal secretary to Jean Martin Charcot in 1886–87, before becoming his clinical co-director at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris, France) between 1887 and 1888.1 His name remains attached to an eponym, Tourette's Syndrome, which was attributed to him by Charcot following his description, for the first time, of a new nervous disease in nine patients, in January 1885.2
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