Prosper Menière: the man who located vertigo in the inner ear

ABSTRACT Since the Greek Aellus Galenum (129 AD - c.200/c.216), vertigo was considered a problem attributed to a cerebral disorder, diagnosed as the manifestation of apoplectiform cerebral congestion. In the mid-19th century, the Frenchman Prosper Menière changed this concept by placing the origin o...

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Main Authors: Péricles MARANHÃO-FILHO, Eliana Teixeira MARANHÃO, Carolina Marques de OLIVEIRA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2021-04-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2021000300254&tlng=en