Tourette's syndrome is seen in every race, every culture, every stratum of society; it can be recognized at a glance once one is attuned to it; and cases of barking and twitching, of grimacing, of strange gesturing, of involuntary cursing and blaspheming, were recorded by Aretaeus of Cappadocia almost two thousand years ago. Yet it was not clinically delineated until 1885, when Georges Gilles de la Tourette, a young French neurologist-a pupil of Charcot's and a friend of Freud's-put together these historical accounts with observations of some of his own patients. The syndrome as he described it was characterized, above all, by convulsive tics,
( Oliver Sacks )
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