Throughout this late period, covering the end of the 1880s up to his death in 1893, Charcot found his work on hysteria eroding on all fronts from the unquestioned acceptance of dynamic nervous system lesions to the categoric hereditary etiology of neurologic disorders, the role of autosuggestion to hysteria, and the pathognomonic hypnosis–hysteria link (Widlocher and Dantchev, 1994).