Don't you think it's a habit of focusing on what has been broadly said instead of what has been precisely shown? Could you please compare what has been said on Charcot's 1868 paper on MS (SEP) with what is actually written there?
What about my attempt at showing this in the link given below?
https://medium.com/@franzschelling/identifying-ms-on-mr-images-a-matter-of-clinical-agreements-or-of-morphological-expertise-e35959cd2700#.om09k0vsi