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Per Olov Enquist: The Story of Blanche and Marie

In 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital as an hysteric and placed in the care of the famous M. Charcot, who regularly displayed her, in a cataleptic state, before a public audience.
ISBN: 9780099483731
Author: Per Olov Enquist
Page: 218
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2007
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Over time the nature of her participation in these demonstrations changed; she graduated from patient to assistant and on leaving the hospital, was hired by Marie Curie to work in her Paris laboratory. On 17 February 1898, radium was discovered and Blanche`s exposure to it neccessitated the amputation of all he rlimbs, save one. As for Marie, her husband and collaborator Pierre was weakened by illness and subsequently killed having wandered in front of an oncoming horse and cart.

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