In this episode, Dr's J and Santhosh discuss the discovery and history of multiple sclerosis. Along the way they cover victorian influencers, science fiction appearing disease, eclectic saints, disease journals, charcot and his triad,intention tremor, scanning speech patters, bad impressions of christopher walken, paleopathology, disease directional gradients, unethical experimentation in world war 2, pathology, the mystery of myelination, the etymology of interferons, and more! so sit back as we discuss all the sclerosis you can handle!

Further Reading

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1142241/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/773581#:~:text=Although%20in%20retrospect%20MS%20may,to%20his%20death%20in%201848.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06618-z

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=The%20case%20of%20Auygustus%20d%27Este%20%281794-1848%29%3A%20the%20first%20account%20of%20disseminated%20sclerosis.&author=D%20Firth&publication_year=1941&journal=Proc%20R%20Soc%20Med.&volume=34&pages=381-384

https://connect.springerpub.com/content/book/978-0-8261-2594-1/part/part01/chapter/ch01

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