Who discovered Lou gehigs disease?

Answer 1

Wikipedia gives a timeline in which English scientist Augustus Waller described the appearance of shrivelled nerve fibers in 1850 and Jean-Martin Charcot first described the disease (mentioned as ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 1869. I don't know a thing about Waller, but Charcot was a French physician that is considered, together with Duchenne, to be the father of neurology. ALS is sometimes called "maladie de Charcot" (Charcot's disease in French). Charcot wrote the epoch-making "Studies of Hysteria" and his experiments with hypnosis inspired Freud, who was one of his students, to use it in his own practice and to open up the study of the unconscious. This is not to say, however, that Charcot was something of a quack. He was a perfectly competent, even brilliant, physician, who demonstrated the importance of miliary aneurysms (dilation of small arteries feeding the brain) and their importance in cerebral hemorrhage.