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Historical Bibliography Updated: February 13, 2020

On chorea and choreiform affections.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: F. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1894 CE.

"One year after Charcot's death, Osler published On Chorea and Choreiform Affectations (1894), and in this pithy monograph, Osler offered a particularly useful evaluation of Charcot's neurological contributions. Whereas in most instances, Osler and Charcot agreed, Osler used data from the new fields of genetics and bacteriology to draw a dear distinction between two entities that Charcot had failed to separate, Sydenham's chorea and Huntington's disease. Osler's On Chorea uniquely captures the transition period between the 19th and 20th centuries. With clarity and insight, Osler documents Charcot's important contributions on disease description, differential diagnosis, and treatment. But with equal sobriety, he delineates Charcot's and his generation's limitation, as the 20th century opens toward the search for neurological causes and embraces new laboratory and experimental methodologies" Goetz, "William Osler: On chorea; On Charcot" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10716267).

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Entry Number#11273
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External URLon-chorea-and

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia

Mentioned in annotation: Huntington, NY