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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GAYET, Alphonse-Charles (1833 – 1904)

1833 – 1904

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1875

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Affection encéphalique (encéphalite diffuse probable) localisée aux étages supérieurs des pédoncules cérébraux et aux couches optiques.

GAYET, Alphonse-Charles (1833 – 1904)

First description of acute superior hemorrhagic polioencephalitis. Called also “Wernicke’s encephalopathy”, following the latter’s description in his Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten, Kassel, 1881, 2, 229-42.