Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson ( born December 6, 1878 in Cedarville, New Jersey, † May 12 1937 in London) was a British neurologist.
Life
Father of Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson was a native of Irish clergy and Presbyterian priest James Kinnier Wilson, who died soon after birth of Samuel. Then the family moved back to their home Edinburgh. During his school years at George Watson 's College in Edinburgh because of its outstanding linguistic talent, he won several prizes for Greek and Latin. His medical studies, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh.
After successful completion in 1902, he worked as a house physician at the Royal Hospital ( Royal Infirmary ) from Edinburgh with Sir Byrom Bramwell, where he found his continued interest in neurology. In 1903 he received the title of Bachelor of Science in Physiology with honors and went to Paris to collaborate with Pierre Marie. He then worked for a year with Joseph Babinski at the Bicêtre Hospital. After a short visit in Leipzig, he went back to London and went in 1904 to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, first as a general practitioner and later as a forensic scientist and pathologist, to the Berufsmedizinier. Here he spent most of his life, together with a group of neurologists, including Sir William Richard Gowers, John Hughlings Jackson, Henry Charlton Bastian and Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley.
In July 1911 he was lenticular degeneration due to a comprehensive 211 page doctoral thesis on the topic Progressive: A familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver ( Progressive lens degeneration: A family bound nerve disease accompanied by cirrhosis) famous and gained for the gold medal of the Edinburgh University. Although Carl Friedrich had Otto Westphal and Adolf von Strümpell already described the pseudo- sclerosis ( Westphal Strümpell syndrome), Wilson pointed to his hand, that this is not the lens- related and liver-specific aspects were clarified together, so they do not as the two essential features of the disorder in could be brought connection.
At that time he was 33 years old and forensic pathologist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. The following year, he published an article on the same subject in the journal Brain. In this he led his detailed conclusions on the erroneous assumption that it is " mostly around family, but do not act to congenital or hereditary causes."
Its publication flowed into the neurological term extrapyramidal a continued focus on the importance of the basal ganglia. Because of its representations, his name was linked to the dysfunction, also known as Hepatolentikulare degeneration ( synonym: Wilson's disease ) is known. Wilson insisted on the retention of Kinnier Wilson Disease.
Wilson discovery brought him a chair as professor of neurology at King's College Hospital - the most important chair in this field in England - a. Besides, he continued his work as a clinical doctor in Harley Street Hospital, where among other things Charles Chaplin was one of his patients.
Works
- Progressive lenticular degeneratio. A familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver. PhD thesis. Brain, Oxford, 1912, 34: 295-507.
- About lenticulare progressive degeneration. Handbook of Neurology, 5th edition; Berlin, 1914.
- Some problems in neurology. No. 2 Pathological laughing and crying. Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology, 1922, 3: 134-139.
- Modern Problems in Neurology. London, 1928.
- Neurologist
- Physician ( 20th century )
- Briton
- Man
- Born in 1878
- Died in 1937