THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CASE
Charcot at the Hospital General at Paris if that was not true?"
Witness. "While there I met a Charcot."
Counsel. "Oh, I see."
Witness. "But not the original Charcot."
Counsel. "Which Charcot did you meet?"
Witness. "A woman. She was a lady assuming the name of Charcot, claiming to be Madame Charcot."
Counsel. "So that when you wrote in this article that you had met Charcot, you intended people to understand that it was the celebrated Professor Charcot, and it was partly true, because there was a woman by the name of Charcot whom you had really met?"
Witness. "Precisely."
Counsel (quietly). "That is to say, there was some truth in it?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
Counsel. "When in that article you said that Charcot to stand pain, was there any truth in that?"
Witness. "No."
Counsel. "Did you as a matter of fact learn to stand pain?"
Witness. "No."
Counsel. "When you said in this article that Charcot began by sticking pins and knives into you little by little, so as to accustom you to standing pain, was that all fiction?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
223
