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Multiple Sclerosis:
The History of a Disease
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Multiple Sclerosis:
The History of a Disease
T. Jock Murray
OC, MD, FRCPC, FAAN, MACP, FRCP, LLD, DSc, D. Litt
Professor of Medical Humanities
Director, Dalhousie MS Research Unit
New York
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Demos Medical Publishing, 386 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016

© 2005 by Demos Medical Publishing. All rights reserved. This book is protected by
copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans-
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murray, T. J.
The history of multiple sclerosis / T. Jock Murray.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-888799-80-3 (softcover : alk. paper)
1. Multiple sclerosis—History.
[DNLM: 1. Multiple Sclerosis—history. WL M984h 2005] I. Title.
2005
'34—dc22
2004022222
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Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Foreword by Professor . McDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
CHAPTER 1: Terminology and Disease Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 2: The Framing of Multiple Sclerosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
CHAPTER 3: The Palsy without a Name: Suffering
with Paraplegia 1395–1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CHAPTER 4: The Steps Toward a Discovery:
The Early Medical Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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