the now discredited mystery

Louise “Augustine” Gleizes, Marie Blanche Wittman and the women of Salpêtrière

In this painting, Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrates hypnosis upon a “hysterical” patient — likely Augustine Gleizes! —at Salpêtrière (image via Wikimedia Commons)

One of the things that I love about writing this newsletter is diving deep on women I only know by names discovered on bronze plaques, park bench inscriptions and at the very bottom of a “works…