Honoré de Balzac's Story of Vanda de Mergi: The First Modern Case of Neurologic Functional Disorder?
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Modern case descriptions of functional neurologic disorders ("hysteria") date mainly from Jean-Martin Charcot and his followers, among whom Sigmund Freud emphasized sexual factors. In his last novel (L'initié), published in 1848, half a century before Char... ...
