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Johann Jakob Wepfer (December 23, 1620 – January 26, 1695) was a Swiss pathologist and pharmacologist who was a native of Schaffhausen. He studied medicine in Strasbourg , Basel and Padua , and in 1647 returned to Schaffhausen to practice medicine.
In 1620, Johann Jakob Wepfer, by studying the brain of a pig, developed the theory that stroke was caused by an interruption of the flow of blood to the brain. [6] [page needed] After that, the focus became how to treat patients with stroke. [citation needed] For most of the last century, people were discouraged from being active after a stroke.
Jean-Claude Baron is an Emeritus Professor of Stroke Medicine at the University of Cambridge. [1] He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences . He has authored around 450 peer-reviewed articles.
In 1658, Johann Jakob Wepfer studied a patient in which he believed that a broken blood vessel had caused apoplexy, or a stroke. In 1749, David Hartley published Observations on Man , which focused on frame (neurology), duty ( moral psychology ) and expectations ( spirituality ) and how these integrated within one another.
Martin Luther was described as having an apoplectic stroke that deprived him of his speech shortly before his death in 1546. [253] In 1658, in his Apoplexia, Johann Jacob Wepfer (1620–1695) identified the cause of hemorrhagic stroke when he suggested that people who had died of apoplexy had bleeding in their brains.
2008 Johann Jakob Wepfer Prize [4] [3] 2012 World Stroke Organisation President's Award [5] 2019 Brain Prize [1] References
In the same year, Schneider handed over the management of the intensive neurological department to his successors (Carsten Hobohm and Dominik Michalski), [13] [14] continued his works on stroke studies with the help of third-party funds (until 2011) [15] [16] and was the manager of the Multiplace HBOT chamber at the clinic for anesthesiology ...
Geoffrey Alan Donnan AO is an Australian neurologist. He was named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012 "for distinguished service to neurology as a clinician and academic leader, and through international contributions to research, particularly in the prevention and treatment of stroke."