Myrtelle Canavan

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Myrtelle Canavan and Elmer Ernest Southard , 1915

Myrtelle May Canavan (born June 24, 1879 in St. Johns , Michigan , † August 26, 1953 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American doctor. In 1931 she described Canavan's disease, which was named after her .

Life

Myrtelle Canavan was born Myrtelle May in Greenbush Township near St. John's, Michigan, in 1879 . She first attended Michigan State College and began studying at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1899. In 1902 she moved to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania , where she graduated in 1905. She married James Canavan and started at Danvers State Hospital in Danversto work as a bacteriological laboratory assistant. Here she met Elmer Southard, who piqued her interest in neuropathology. Together they researched, among other things, the causes and connections of brain damage and the resulting clinical changes and symptoms. In 1910 she moved to Boston State Hospital, from where she continued to work with Southard. In 1914 she was appointed head of the laboratory at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and took up a teaching position at the University of Vermont. In 1924 she received a professorship at Boston University and was appointed curator of the Warren Anatomical Institute. Canavan died in 1953 of complications from Parkinson's disease .

research

Canavan's research focused on the pathology of the eye, brain, spleen and spine. In particular, she researched the relationships between pathological changes and the associated clinical and psychopathological changes.

Canavan's disease

In 1931 Canavan described the case of a child who died at the age of 16 months and who, on pathological examination, showed soft, cancellous areas of the brain. The disease was later identified as genetically caused leukodystrophy .

Fonts

  • Co-editor of the monograph series " Waverly researches in the pathology of the feeble-minded " (1918–1940).
  • Myrtelle Canavan " Elmer Ernest Southard and his parents: a brain study " Imprint: Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1925.
  • Myrtelle M. Canavan, Louise Eisenhardt " The Brains of 50 Insane Criminals: Shapes and Patterns " State Printers, 1942.
  • MM Canavan: “ The Histology of the Superior Lachrymal Gland in Mental Disease and Defect. “In: The Journal of medical research. Volume 43, Number 4, August 1922, pp. 447-454.1, ISSN  0097-3599 . PMID 19972582 . PMC 2105753 (free full text).
  • MM Canavan, EE Southard: “ The significance of Bacteria cultivated from the Human Cadaver: a Second Series of One Hundred Cases of Mental Disease, with Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Cultures and Clinical and Histological Correlations. “In: The Journal of medical research. Volume 31, Number 3, January 1915, pp. 339-365, ISSN  0097-3599 . PMID 19972211 . PMC 2083818 (free full text).
  • EE Southard, MM Canavan: “ On the Nature and Importance of Kidney Lesions in Psychopathic Subjects: a Study of One Hundred Cases autopsied at the Boston State Hospital. “In: The Journal of medical research. Volume 31, Number 2, November 1914, pp. 285-299, ISSN  0097-3599 . PMID 19972207 . PMC 2094466 (free full text).
  • MM Canavan: “ The Blood Cell Picture in Horse Serum Anaphylaxis in the Guinea Pig: Note on Kurloff's Inclusion Cells. “In: The Journal of medical research. Volume 27, Number 2, November 1912, pp. 189-203, ISSN  0097-3599 . PMID 19972082 . PMC 2099106 (free full text).
  • Canavan NM. " Schilder 's Encephalitis Periaxialis Diffusa, Report of a Case in a Child Aged Sixteen and one-half months, " Arch. Neurol 1931; 25: 229-308
  • EE Southard, MM Canavan, DA Thom, " The First Thousand Autopsies of the Pathological Service of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases, 1914-1919, " Proc. At the. Medico-Psych Asoc. 26: 459-66
  • MM Canavan, " Simmonds'disease (pituitary cachexia) in an aged man with dementia praecox, " Arch. Path., Chicago, 1940; 29, 310-313
  • MM Canavan, “ A histological study of the optic nerves in a random series of insane hospital cases. “Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol 43, 1916, 217-230. doi : 10.1097 / 00005053-191603000-00003

literature

  • American College of Physicians: Annals of internal medicine, Volume 40. American College of Physicians, Philadelphia etc., 1954, p. 849.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Canavan NM. “Schilder's Encephalitis Periaxialis Diffusa, Report of a Case in a Child Aged Sixteen and one-half months,” Arch. Neurol 1931; 25: 229-308


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personal data
SURNAME Canavan, Myrtelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canavan, Myrtelle May (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johns , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1953
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts