Note 17 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Charcot, ‘Leçons du Mardi à la Salpétrière,’ Policlinique, Paris, 1890, 2e partie, p. 392: ‘This person [the invalid mentioned] is a performer at fairs; he calls himself “artist.” The truth is that his art consists in personating a “wild man” in fair-booths.’