Although there were physicians who recognized the relapsing and progressive neurological disease in young adults earlier, the description of multiple sclerosis is usually credited to Jean-Martin Charcot, as he clarified the clinical picture and pathology of the disease remarkably well in three published lectures, and he gave the disease a name. Very little was added to Charcot’s description in the next 50 years. He published his description in 1868, and it was translated into English in 1881.
Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system. Volume II, Translated by George Sigerson, London, New Sydenham Society, 1881. http://www.archive.org/details/lecturesondiseas03char
Suggested By Thomas Murray
Although there were physicians who recognized the relapsing and progressive neurological disease in young adults earlier, the description of multiple sclerosis is usually credited to Jean-Martin Charcot, as he clarified the clinical picture and pathology of the disease remarkably well in three published lectures, and he gave the disease a name. Very little was added to Charcot’s description in the next 50 years. He published his description in 1868, and it was translated into English in 1881.