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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Degenerative Disorders

Exhibiting 56 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1892 CEA case of complete athetosis with post-mortem.
PUTNAM, James Wright (1860 – 1938)
1900 CEA case of unilateral progressive ascending paralysis, probably representing a new form of degenerative disease.
MILLS, Charles Karsner (1845 – 1931)
MILLS, Charles Karsner (1845 – 1931)
1996 CEA new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.
WILL, R. G.
WILL, R. G.
IRONSIDE, J. W.
IRONSIDE, J. W.
ZEIDLER, M.
ZEIDLER, M. & et al.
1835 CEA treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.
PRICHARD, James Cowles (1786 – 1848)
PRICHARD, James Cowles (1786 – 1848)
1829 CE​–1842 CEAnatomie pathologique du corps humain. 2 vols.
CRUVEILHIER, Jean (1791 – 1874)
CRUVEILHIER, Jean (1791 – 1874)
1965 CEAttempts to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations in man. Addendum p. 46 in: Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. NINDB Monograph No. 2. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and Michael Alpers.
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001) ALPERS, Michael
1862 CECase of progressive atrophy of the muscles of the hands: enlargement of the ventricle of the cord in the cervical region, with atrophy of the gray matter.
GULL, Sir William Withey (1816 – 1890)
GULL, Sir William Withey (1816 – 1890)
1903 CECerebral degeneration with symmetrical changes in the maculae in two members of a family.
BATTEN, Frederick Eustace (1865 – 1918)
BATTEN, Frederick Eustace (1865 – 1918)
1904 CECerebral degeneration, with symmetrical changes in the maculae, in three members of a family.
MAYOU, Marmaduke Stephen (1876 – 1934)
1987 CECognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (Leuko-Araiosis).
HACHINSKI, Vladimir (1941 – ) STEINGART, Allan MERSKEY, Harold (1929 – ) & et al.
1936 CEContribution à l’étude des syndromes du globe pâle. La dégénérescence progressive du globe pâle et de la portion réticuléé de la substance noire (maladie d’Hallervorden–Spatz).
VINCENT, Clovis Julien Désiré (1879 – 1947) BOGAERT, Ludo van (1897 – 1989)
1843 CE​–1844 CECourse of lectures on the deformities of the human frame. Lecture IX.
LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
1883 CEDe la parésie analgésique à panaris des extrémités supérieures ou paréso-analgésie des extrémités supérieures.
MORVAN, Augustin Marie (1819 – 1897)
MORVAN, Augustin Marie (1819 – 1897)
1957 CEDegenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) ZIGAS, Vincent (1920 – 1983)
1897 CEDie infantile Cerebrallähmung.
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
1922 CEEigenartige Erkrankung in extrapyramidalen System mit besonderer Beteiligung des Globus pallidus und der Substantia nigra.
HALLERVORDEN, Julius (1882 – 1965)
HALLERVORDEN, Julius (1882 – 1965) SPATZ, Hugo (1888 – 1969)
1908 CEEine eigentümliche tonische Krampfform mit hysterischen Symptomen.
SCHWALBE, Marcus Walter (1883 – 1926)
1868 CEHistologie de la sclérose en plaques.
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
1838 CEIllustrations of the elementary forms of disease.
CARSWELL, Sir Robert (1793 – 1857)
CARSWELL, Sir Robert (1793 – 1857)
1861 CEKlinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.
FRERICHS, Friedrich Theodor von (1819 – 1885)
FRERICHS, Friedrich Theodor von (1819 – 1885)
1907 CEKlinische und anatomische Untersuchungen über eine besondere Form von familiärer amaurotische Idiotie.
SPIELMAYER, Walther (1879 – 1935)
1912 CEL’atrophie olivo-ponto-cérébelleuse.
DEJERINE, Joseph Jules (1849 – 1917)
DEJERINE, Joseph Jules (1849 – 1917) THOMAS, André (1867 – 1963)
1916 CELe syndrome nerveux de l’espace rétro-parotidien postérieur.
VILLARET, Maurice (1877 – 1946)
VILLARET, Maurice (1877 – 1946)
2014 CEMadness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
2005 CEMultiple sclerosis: The history of a disease.
MURRAY, Thomas John "Jock" (1938 – )
MURRAY, Thomas John "Jock" (1938 – )
1982 CENovel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
1867 CEOn a case of muscular atrophy, with disease of the spinal cord and medulla oblongata.
JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911)
JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835 – 1911) CLARKE, Jacob Augustus Lockhart (1817 – 1880)
1872 CEOn chorea.
HUNTINGTON, George (1850 – 1916)
HUNTINGTON, George (1850 – 1916)
1853 CEOn the nature and treatment of the deformities of the human frame.
LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
1912 CEProgressive lenticular degeneration, a familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.
WILSON, Samuel Alexander Kinnier (1878 – 1937)
WILSON, Samuel Alexander Kinnier (1878 – 1937)
1903 CESopra un’ alterazione del corpo calloso osservata in soggetti alcoolisti.
MARCHIAFAVA, Ettore (1847 – 1935)
MARCHIAFAVA, Ettore (1847 – 1935)
BIGNAMI, Amico (1862 – 1929)
BIGNAMI, Amico (1862 – 1929)
1900 CESubacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord.
RUSSELL, James Samuel Risien (1863 – 1939)
RUSSELL, James Samuel Risien (1863 – 1939)
BATTEN, Frederick Eustace (1865 – 1918)
BATTEN, Frederick Eustace (1865 – 1918)
COLLIER, James Stansfield (1870 – 1935)
COLLIER, James Stansfield (1870 – 1935)
1963 CESupranuclear ophthalmoplegia, pseudobulbar palsy, nuchal dystonia and dementia. A Clinical Report on Eight Cases of "heterogenous System Degeneration".
STEELE, John
STEELE, John
RICHARDSON, John
RICHARDSON, John OLSZEWSKI, Jerzy (1913 – 1964)
1893 CESur l’hérédo-ataxie cérébelleuse.
MARIE, Pierre (1853 – 1940)
MARIE, Pierre (1853 – 1940)
1868 CESur la paralysie agitante et la sclérose en plaques généralisée.
ORDENSTEIN, Leopold (1835 – 1902)
1916 CEThe histology of disseminated sclerosis.
DAWSON, James Walker (1870 – 1927)
1919 CEThe journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.
CUMMINGS, Bruce Frederick [BARBELLION] (1889 – 1919) WELLS, Herbert George (1866 – 1946)
1982 CEThe spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) MASTERS, Colin Louis (1947 – )
1971 CETransmission of two subacute spongiform encephalopathies of man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) to New World monkeys.
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001)
1911 CEŪber eigenartige Krankheitsfälle des späteren Alters.
ALZHEIMER, Alois (1864 – 1915)
ALZHEIMER, Alois (1864 – 1915)
1885 CEÜber eine eigentümliche Form spastischer Lähmung mit Cerebralerscheinungen auf hereditärer Grundlage. (Multiple Sklerose.)
PELIZAEUS, Friedrich Christoph (1851 – 1942)
PELIZAEUS, Friedrich Christoph (1851 – 1942)
1905 CEÜber familiäre amaurotische Idiotie und verwandte Krankheitsbilder.
VOGT, Heinrich (1875 – 1936)
1891 CEUeber acute Ataxie.
LEYDEN, Ernst Viktor von (1832 – 1910)
LEYDEN, Ernst Viktor von (1832 – 1910)
1863 CEUeber degenerative Atrophie der spinalen Hinterstränge.
FRIEDREICH, Nikolaus (1825 – 1882)
FRIEDREICH, Nikolaus (1825 – 1882)
1892 CEUeber die Beziehungen der senilen Hirnatrophie zur Aphasie.
PICK, Arnold (1851 – 1924)
PICK, Arnold (1851 – 1924)
1888 CEUeber die Diagnose der Syringomyelie.
KAHLER, Otto (1849 – 1893)
KAHLER, Otto (1849 – 1893)
1898 CEUeber die Westphal’sche Pseudosklerose und über diffuse Hirnsklerose, insbesondere bei Kindem.
STRÜMPELL, Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried (1853 – 1925)
1921 CEUeber eigenartige Erkrankungen der Zentralnervensystems mit bemerkenswertem anatomischem Befunde. (Spastische Pseudosklerose — Encephalomyclopathie mit disseminirrten Degenerationsherden.)
JAKOB, Afons Maria (1884 – 1931)
1886 CEUeber eine bestimmte Form der primären combinirten Systemerkrankungen des Rückenmarks.
STRÜMPELL, Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried (1853 – 1925)
1883 CEUeber eine dem Bilde der cerebrospinalen grauen Degeneration ähnliche Erkrankung des centralen Nervensystems ohne anatomischen Befund, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über paradoxe Contraction.
WESTPHAL, Carl Friedrich Otto (1833 – 1890)