The first description of a neurologic disease appears in the Smith papyrus, which is the oldest known medical text. This ancient papyrus, translated by Edward Smith, consists of a number of “case reports” of different diseases, presented and discussed by an unknown Egyptian author, written about 3300 BC. One of the cases is a person with a traumatic head injury, which is the earliest known description of a neurologic problem.
November 16th, 2011
Doing some reading and I came across a list of people who probably had AD:
1. Ronald Reagan—U.S. president
2. Charlton Heston—actor
3. Rita Hayworth—actress
4. Immanuel Kant—philosopher
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson—writer
6. Maurice Ravel—composer
7. John James Audubon—painter