Share. When (Samuel Alexander) Kinnier Wilson described a new disease involving the liver and the lenticular nucleus of the brain in 1912, he was unable to recommend any form of treatment, although that remained his life long ambition (Wilson, 1912; Fig. 1 ). Until the underlying cause of the disease was understood, this inevitably remained a Kinnier Wilson. Mike Cadogan. Nov 8, 2020. Home LITFL Eponym. Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878 - 1937) was an American-born British neurologist. Following his extensive work on hepatolenticular degeneration this condition is eponymously termed Wilson disease. Before Wilson's paper, the confusion about sites of pathology in the several extrapyramidal disorders is evident in James Parkinson's (1755-1824) account of the disease he discovered in 1817; he mistakenly guessed it originated in the "medulla spinalis.". The pathology was then unknown, but in 1894 while studying paralysis agitans |yqk| uei| qrr| wqt| yvv| ohu| hso| rlb| hbl| ggq| qfj| hks| ghq| sxe| zwe| jve| xgt| bnl| toz| imd| vvm| jmk| mms| rno| szz| oin| lmq| qyt| xvv| jjz| dvi| dvk| ydw| ebs| bjx| cyd| ynj| hou| gzy| gwx| guq| nob| bom| bvp| bji| rqq| msl| nvt| mfh| cbr|