Multiple Sclerosis : The History of a Disease

Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Professor W.I. McDonald Terminology and Disease Description 1(12) The Framing of Multiple Sclerosis 13(6) The Palsy without a Name: Suffering with Paraplegia 1395--1868 19(42) The Steps Toward a Discovery: The Early Medical Reports 61(34) The Building Blocks of a Discovery 95(8) The Contribution of J.M. Charcot---1868 103(36) The Medical Reports After Charcot 139(50) Clarifying the Pathology: James Dawson 189(6) The Journal of a Disappointed Man 195(8) Experimentation, Meetings, Reviews, and Symposia, 1920--1960 203(26) Searching for a Cause of MS 229(90) Classifying and Measuring MS 319(18) The Nature of the MS Plaque 337(26) Investigations 363(28) Searching for Therapy 391(114) Multiple Sclerosis and the Public: Societies, Narratives, and the Media 505(24) Afterword 529(6) A Chronology of Events in the History of MS 535(14) Index 549