William John Adie

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William John Adie (born October 31, 1886 in Geelong , † March 17, 1935 ) was an Australian neurologist .

Life

At the age of 20 he emigrated to England to study medicine. He received his doctorate in 1911 and then worked for a year on a scholarship in Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Paris. He then moved to The National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in London. After the outbreak of the First World War he served first in the Northamptonshire Regiment as a field doctor and after a measles disease in the Leicestershire Regiment. Aie is mentioned in war reports. He had protected soldiers from one of the early attacks with poison gas by improvising protective masks made from clothing soaked in urine. After the First World War he worked intermittently at Charing Cross Hospital in London and finally at the National Hospital for Nervous Disease and Moorfields Eye Hospital . He was also active in medical teaching and was considered a capable teacher.

In the following years he published numerous articles in medical journals. After him, the Adie Syndrome and the Adie Critchley Syndrome (description together with Macdonald Critchley) were named. The University of Edinburgh awarded him the gold medal for his achievements. Adie co-founded the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) in 1932 .

Adie was married to Lorraine Bonar from 1916. Together they had two children, a daughter and a son.

On March 17, 1935, Adie died of a heart attack at the age of 48.

Publications

  • WJ Adie, WW Wagstaffe: A note on a series of 656 cases of gunshot wound of the head, with a statistical consideration of the results obtained. Medical Research Committee Statistical Reports, no.1. Stationery Office, London 1918.
  • WJ Adie: Idiopathic narcolepsy: a disease sui generis: with remarks on the mechanism of sleep. In: Brain. 49, 1926, pp. 275-306.
  • WJ Adie, M. Critchley: Forced grasping and groping. In: Brain. 50, 1927, pp. 142-170.
  • WJ Adie: Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils with absent tendon reflexes. A benign disorder simulating tabes dorsalis. In: British Medical Journal. I, 1931, pp. 928-930.
  • WJ Adie: Tonic pupils and absent tendon reflexes: a benign disorder sui generis; its complete and incomplete forms. In: Brain. 55, 1932, pp. 98-113.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d William John Adie. Whonamedit.com; Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e J. M. Pearce: William John Adie (1886–1935). In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry . Volume 75, number 8, August 2004, p. 1111, doi: 10.1136 / jnnp.2003.020321 . PMID 15258210 . PMC 1739159 (free full text).
personal data
SURNAME Adie, William John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Geelong
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1935