Download or read book Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris written by Asti Hustvedt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the lives of three French women who became unwitting celebrities after being committed to the hysteria ward of Salpetrière Hospital in 1870s Paris and delves into the treatment they received from noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot.