Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Chapter Twenty Seven Charles Foix
- Chapter Twenty Eight Houston Merritt and Charles Aring
- Chapter Twenty Nine C. Miller Fisher
- Chapter Thirty Louis Caplan
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Twenty Eight - Houston Merritt and Charles Aring
from Some Key Physicians
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Chapter Twenty Seven Charles Foix
- Chapter Twenty Eight Houston Merritt and Charles Aring
- Chapter Twenty Nine C. Miller Fisher
- Chapter Thirty Louis Caplan
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
By the end of the first third of the twentieth century, much progress had been made in neuropathology, in recognizing the necropsy findings in patients with brain and subarachnoid hemorrhages and brain infarctions. The anatomy and distribution of the arteries that supplied the brain had been extensively studied and published (see Chapters 12 and 23). The clinical neurological symptoms and signs in patients with various localized brain lesions had been studied and discussed in published literature (see Chapters 10, 11, 14, and 23). Neurosurgeons had begun to attempt to drain brain hemorrhages. But stroke continued to be of little interest to most general physicians and neurologists. There were no doctors who called themselves stroke specialists.
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- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 260 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022