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mask of a Roman Emperor. When he was
angry, the flash in his eyes was terrible like
lightning, nobody who has ever faced those eyes is
likely to forget them. His voice was imperative,
hard, often sarcastic. The grip of his small,
flabby hand was unpleasant. He had few friends
amongst his colleagues, he was feared by his
patients and his assistants for whom he seldom
had a kind word of encouragement in exchange
for the superhuman amount of work he imposed
upon them. He was indifferent to the sufferings
of his patients, he took little interest in them
from the day of establishing the diagnosis until
the day of the post-mortem examination.
Among his assistants he had his favourites whom
he often pushed forward to privileged positions
far above their merits. A word of
recommendation from Charcot was enough to decide the
result of any examination or concours, in fact
he ruled supreme over the whole faculty of
medicine.
Sharing the fate of all nerve specialists he was
surrounded by a bodyguard of neurotic ladies,
hero-worshippers at all costs. Luckily for him
he was absolutely indifferent to women. His
only relaxation from his incessant toil was music.
Nobody was allowed to speak a word about
medicine on his Thursday evenings all devoted to
music. Beethoven was his favourite. He was
very fond of animals, every morning as he
descended heavily from his landau in the inner
court of Salpêtrière he produced from his pocket
a piece of bread for his two old Rosinantes. He
always cut short any conversation about sport
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