What is the history of TS?
In 1825 the first case of TS was reported in medical literature with a description of the Marquise de Dampierre, a noblewoman whose symptoms included involuntary tics of many parts of her body and various vocalizations including coprolalia and echolalia. Later, Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette, the French neurologist for whom the disorder is named, first described nine cases in 1885. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer, and Andre Malraux, the French author, are among the famous people who are thought to have had TS.
