Multiple sclerosis [electronic resource] : the history of a disease / T. Jock Murray.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Demos Medical Pub., c2005Description: xi, 580 p. : ill., portsSubject(s): Multiple sclerosis -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616.8/34 LOC classification: RC377 | .M88 2005Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Terminology and disease description -- The framing of multiple sclerosis -- The palsy without a name: suffering with paraplegia, 1395-1868 -- The steps toward a discovery : the early medical reports -- The building blocks of a discovery -- The contribution of J.M. Charcot, 1868 -- The medical reports after Charcot -- Clarifying the pathology : James Dawson -- The journal of a disappointed man -- Experimentation, meetings, reviews, and symposia, 1920-1960 -- Searching for a cause of MS -- Classifying and measuring MS -- The nature of the MS plaque -- Investigations -- Searching for therapy -- Multiple sclerosis and the public: societies, narratives and the media.
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