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Swiss physician François Sigismond Jaccoud (1830-1913)

Photographic portrait of Swiss physician François Sigismond Jaccoud (1830-1913). Jaccoud described the inability to stand (ie, “astasia”) in the face of normal limb movement. (Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.)

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