How The Brain Lost Its MindHugely entertaining Guardian Fascinating Mail on Sunday In 1882, Jean Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities, and in doing so, revolutionised the treatment of mental illness. Many of Charcot's patients had neurosyphilis (the advanced