Journal
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages 1384-1386Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1352458511411758
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Devic's syndrome; history of neurology; neuromyelitis optica
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- European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS)
- Bayer Schering Healthcare
- Merck Serono
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We discuss a forgotten report by the famous British neuroanatomist, neuropathologist and neurologist Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (1817-1880) about a 17-year-old girl with bilateral optic neuritis and longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis. This report, which appeared in 1865, i.e. 15 years prior to Wilhelm Erb's much-cited paper on the coincidence of optic neuritis and acute myelitis, represents the first known account of a case of Devic's syndrome or neuromyelitis optica in the English-language medical literature.
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