William James West

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William James West (* 1793 , † 1848 ) was an English physician and surgeon , who in Tonbridge (county Kent ) lived.

The West Syndrome , a special form of epilepsy in infancy and toddlerhood, was named after him. He observed the seizures in 1841 in his son, who was then about four months old, and also described them from a scientific point of view. West sought the advice of Charles Mansfield Clarke (1782-1857) and Charles Locock (1799-1875), but found no help. Clarke coined the term Salaam-Tic for seizures at the time.

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  1. ^ Norbert J. Pies and Clive Beardsmore: West & West syndrome - A historical sketch about the eponymous doctor, his work and his family. In: Brain & Development 25: 84-101 (2003).
  2. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: Biographical and bibliographical information from the history of epilepsy. William James West (1794-1848), James Edwin West (1840-1860), John Hughlings-Jackson (1835-1911), William Gordon Lennox (1884-1960). Munich 1990. ISBN 3-87531-200-7 .
  3. ↑ West WJ. On a peculiar form of infantile convulsions. Lancet. 1841; 1 : 724-5.
  4. ↑ Hansjörg Schneble: Heillos, Heilig, Heilbar: the history of epilepsy from the beginning until today. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, p. 100-1, ISBN 3-11-017493-6 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME West, William James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH 1793
DATE OF DEATH 1848