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How Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Got Its Name

How Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Got Its Name HISTORY OF NEUROLOGY SECTION EDITOR: CHRISTOPHER G. GOETZ, MD The Clinical-Pathologic Genius of Jean-Martin Charcot Lewis P. Rowland, MD myotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) occupies a unique place in the history of human disease in general and in neurological disease in particular. Charcot was the one who deduced the relationship between the clinical signs and the findings at autopsy. In his A 1874 description, Charcot established the clinicopathologic approach that has domi- nated medical nosology ever since. In the latter half of the 19th century, diseases were defined by autopsy findings. Charcot was the not first to describe cases day Lectures at the Ho ˆ pital de la Salpe ˆ tri- 2 4 of ALS. Tyler and Shefner credit Charles e `re and in translation by George Sigerson, Bell with a report in 1824. Having distin- who included the essential concepts of 5-8 9 guished the motor functions of anterior Charcot’s ALS lectures in English. Goetz spinal nerve roots and the sensory func- has brought the translations up-to-date. tions of the posterior roots, Bell was in- However, the parallelism is not so terested in finding patients with purely mo- clear. Sections I and II of Sigerson’s Lec- tor disorders. Goldblatt http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA Neurology American Medical Association

How Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Got Its Name

JAMA Neurology , Volume 58 (3) – Mar 1, 2001

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American Medical Association
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Copyright 2001 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
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2168-6149
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2168-6157
DOI
10.1001/archneur.58.3.512
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Abstract

HISTORY OF NEUROLOGY SECTION EDITOR: CHRISTOPHER G. GOETZ, MD The Clinical-Pathologic Genius of Jean-Martin Charcot Lewis P. Rowland, MD myotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) occupies a unique place in the history of human disease in general and in neurological disease in particular. Charcot was the one who deduced the relationship between the clinical signs and the findings at autopsy. In his A 1874 description, Charcot established the clinicopathologic approach that has domi- nated medical nosology ever since. In the latter half of the 19th century, diseases were defined by autopsy findings. Charcot was the not first to describe cases day Lectures at the Ho ˆ pital de la Salpe ˆ tri- 2 4 of ALS. Tyler and Shefner credit Charles e `re and in translation by George Sigerson, Bell with a report in 1824. Having distin- who included the essential concepts of 5-8 9 guished the motor functions of anterior Charcot’s ALS lectures in English. Goetz spinal nerve roots and the sensory func- has brought the translations up-to-date. tions of the posterior roots, Bell was in- However, the parallelism is not so terested in finding patients with purely mo- clear. Sections I and II of Sigerson’s Lec- tor disorders. Goldblatt

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JAMA NeurologyAmerican Medical Association

Published: Mar 1, 2001

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