Georges Edouard Albert Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (1859 - 1904) was a Frenchphysician. He is the eponym of Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disease. 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Physician examining a child The word physician should not be confused with physicist, which means a scientist in the area of physics. ... An eponym is a person, whether real or fictitious, whose name has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery, or other item. ... Tourette syndrome — also called Tourettes syndrome, Tourette Spectrum (TS), Tourettes disorder, or Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (after its discoverer, Georges Gilles de la Tourette) — is a neurological or neurochemical disorder characterized by tics — involuntary, rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way. ...
GillesdelaTourette's syndrome A rare psycho neurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterized by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stuttering.
GillesdelaTourette had boundless energy and threw himself avidly into new therapeutic techniques such as suspension, vibration and hypnotherapy.
GillesdelaTourette's most substantial achievements were in the study of hysteria and the medico-legal ramifications of hypnotism, but he was also a competent neuropsychiatrist with a particular interest in therapeutics.