Recent Work on the Demyelinating Diseases *Based on a communication to the West Country Physicians' Club, April 1958.
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this review covers some of the developments during this period. Just over twenty years ago J. R. M. Innes came to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and showed us some intriguing pictures of lambs with sway-back and suggested that here was a demyelinating disease which could be prevented by giving the ewes copper. Then, during the war, four workers studying sway-back developed themselves some curious symptoms resembling disseminated sclerosis. This naturally stimulated a considerable amount of work into the possible connection between copper?or other trace elements?and disseminated. To determine the normal ranges the copper levels in other patients in the neurological wards were examined. This was how the abnormal levels in Wilson's disease were found and the cause of this disorder accidentally established: to remind you?in Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration) it is suggested that excessive copper is absorbed from the
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دوره 74 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1959