A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes
William Richard Gowers (1845–1915) spent his career working at the National Hospital for the Relief and Cure for the Paralyzed and Epileptic at Queen Square, in London, United Kingdom, and at the nearby University College Hospital. His “Manual of the Diseases of the Nervous System” and many publishe...
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description | William Richard Gowers (1845–1915) spent his career working at the National Hospital for the Relief and Cure for the Paralyzed and Epileptic at Queen Square, in London, United Kingdom, and at the nearby University College Hospital. His “Manual of the Diseases of the Nervous System” and many published lectures were based almost entirely on his own clinical observations meticulously recorded in shorthand. In this paper, we have focused on an analysis of his inpatient case records from 1878 to 1911 preserved in the archives at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. We reviewed all 42 volumes and analyzed 2,478 patients. Between 1897 and 1909, a mean of 129.7 cases per year were admitted to the hospital under Gowers' care. We grouped the diagnoses in 12 different categories. Epilepsy (16.5%), followed by spinal cord diseases (10.3%), cerebrovascular diseases (9.5%), and functional disorders (7.9%) were the most common diagnoses. |
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spelling | doaj.art-cb6132cba3844498904de098666bb8532022-12-22T02:56:19ZengAcademia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272013-06-0171641141310.1590/0004-282X20130049S0004-282X2013000600411A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notesThiago Cardoso ValeAndrew LeesFrancisco CardosoWilliam Richard Gowers (1845–1915) spent his career working at the National Hospital for the Relief and Cure for the Paralyzed and Epileptic at Queen Square, in London, United Kingdom, and at the nearby University College Hospital. His “Manual of the Diseases of the Nervous System” and many published lectures were based almost entirely on his own clinical observations meticulously recorded in shorthand. In this paper, we have focused on an analysis of his inpatient case records from 1878 to 1911 preserved in the archives at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. We reviewed all 42 volumes and analyzed 2,478 patients. Between 1897 and 1909, a mean of 129.7 cases per year were admitted to the hospital under Gowers' care. We grouped the diagnoses in 12 different categories. Epilepsy (16.5%), followed by spinal cord diseases (10.3%), cerebrovascular diseases (9.5%), and functional disorders (7.9%) were the most common diagnoses.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013000600411&lng=en&tlng=enhistoria da medicinaepilepsiatranstornos cerebrovascularesdoencas da medula espinhaltranstornos motores |
spellingShingle | Thiago Cardoso Vale Andrew Lees Francisco Cardoso A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria historia da medicina epilepsia transtornos cerebrovasculares doencas da medula espinhal transtornos motores |
title | A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes |
title_full | A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes |
title_fullStr | A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes |
title_full_unstemmed | A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes |
title_short | A biosketch of William Richard Gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes |
title_sort | biosketch of william richard gowers with a new review of his inpatient case history notes |
topic | historia da medicina epilepsia transtornos cerebrovasculares doencas da medula espinhal transtornos motores |
url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013000600411&lng=en&tlng=en |
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