Hemorrhagic stroke historical perspective
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical perspective
- Hippocrates (460 to 370 BC) was first to describe the phenomenon of sudden paralysis.
- Apoplexy, from the Greek word meaning "struck down with violence,” first appeared in Hippocratic writings to describe this phenomenon.[1]
The word stroke was used as a synonym for apoplectic seizure as early as 1599,[2] and is a fairly literal translation of the Greek term.
- In 1658, in his Apoplexia, Johann Jacob Wepfer (1620–1695) identified the cause of hemorrhagic stroke when he suggested that people who had died of apoplexy had bleeding in their brains.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thompson JE (1996). "The evolution of surgery for the treatment and prevention of stroke. The Willis Lecture". Stroke. 27 (8): 1427–34. PMID 8711815.
- ↑ R. Barnhart, ed. The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology (1995)
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