Brain Spot Men
Gavin Francis, 4 May 2023
Metamorphosis
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
Cape, 260 pp., £18.99, February,978 1 78733 125 9 Show More
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
Cape, 260 pp., £18.99, February,
“... at postmortem as grey-pink blobs in the brain. The first neurologist to describe it was Jean-Martin Charcot of the Salpêtrière in Paris, who in 1868 called it ‘sclérose en plaques disseminées’. In German the disease became known as ‘Multiple Sklerose’ and in English ‘disseminated sclerosis’. By the 1950s the anglophone medical community ... ”