The invention of “female hysteria†and accompanying photographic experiments by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot were condemned by some as “sexually depraved†, but hailed by Andre Breton and the Surrealists as the visual apotheosis of “lâ€amour fou†. Conducted during the 1870s at the lunatic asylum of Salpetriere in Paris, Charcotâ€s experiments â€" which also involved hypnosis â€" often bordered on “medical erotica†, and remain controversial to this day. This special ebook presentation of more than 40 startling pathology photographs includes images from both Charcotâ€s Iconographique de la Salpetriere (1878) and Nouvelle Iconographique de la Salpetriere (1888-1917).