Gheorghe Marinescu
Gheorghe Marinescu ( born February 28, 1863 in Bucharest, † May 15, 1938 ) was a Romanian neurologist and neuropathologist.
Life
After graduating in medicine in 1888 at the University of Bucharest Marinescu is specialized in the histopathological laboratory of Brâncoveanu Hospital and as an assistant at the Institute of Bacteriology under the direction of Victor Babeş. On the recommendation of babes he went with a state scholarship to Paris, where he began his training in neurology under Jean- Martin Charcot. In Salpêtrière he met Pierre Marie, Joseph Babinski and Fulgence Raymond know. Later he worked with Karl Weigert in Frankfurt am Main and then with Emil Heinrich Du Bois -Reymond in Berlin. On the recommendation of Pierre Marie he wore in 1890 at an international congress in Berlin, the new findings on the pathological anatomy of acromegaly before.
After nine years of residence abroad Marinescu came back in 1897 to Bucharest, where he earned his doctorate at the University. In Bucharest, a new chair of neurology at the hospital pantelimon was set up for him. Shortly thereafter he was appointed Director of the Neurological University Clinic, based in Spitalul Tina Cole. He served this function for 41 years.
Gheorghe Marinescu maintained close academic relations with his Parisian colleagues, and many of his over 250 articles have been published in French.
Scientific Work
The scientific work of Gheorghe Marinescu covered the entire neurology including experimental neuropathology. He used the latest methods of investigation such as x-rays or the cinematography, the body position while performing various movements by healthy or neurologically ill people. The results of these studies appeared in the monograph Le tonus of the muscles STRIES (1937 ) in collaboration with N. Jonescu - Sisesti, Oskar Sager and Arthur Kreindler, with a foreword by Sir Charles Sherrington.
Early in his academic career he published with Victor Babeş and the French pathologist Paul Oscar Blocq an atlas on the pathological anatomy of disorders of the nervous system. His 1893 Blocq written description of a case of parkinsonartigem tremor by damage to the substantia nigra was the basis for the adoption of Édouard Brissaud that Parkinson 's disease occurs as a result of a lesion in the substantia nigra area of . Together with Blocq he first described the senile plaques, and with the Romanian neurologist Ion Minea he confirmed the discovery of Hideyo Noguchi of Treponema pallidum in the brains of patients with progressive paralysis. His work La Cellule nerveuse, with a foreword by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, appeared 1909.
In 1925 he was selected from all the students of Jean -Martin Charcot, to evoke in a ceremony to Charcot's 100th birthday, the figure of the great master.
Eponyms
- Marinescu 's hand, cold, edematous hand with livid skin, seen in some neurological diseases such as syringomyelia.
- Marinescu -Sjogren syndrome, a rare congenital disease with spino - cerebellar ataxia, congenital cataract, dysarthria, mental retardation.
- Palm Omen Taler reflex ( Marinescu - Radovici )