Alois Alzheimer - Wikipedia

Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that June 14 is the anniversary of the birth of German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia," which Emil Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.

Some diseases are named after their identifier as is the case with Aloysius Alzheimer. My mother died of Alzheimer's Disease on September 28, 2001. I was with her as she was dying and praying for her salvation an peaceful death. She died about 0300 or so and I sat with het for awhile and then drove to Fort Belvoir for my pre-mobilization physical.

Background from alz.co.uk/alois-alzheimer
"Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer was born in 1864 in Markbreit in Bavaria, Southern Germany. Excelling in sciences at school he studied medicine in Berlin, Aschaffenburg, Tübingen and Würzburg where he graduated with a medical degree in 1887. He began work in the state asylum in Frankfurt am Main, becoming interested in research on the cortex of the human brain. Here he commenced his education in psychiatry and neuropathology.
Along with Franz Nissl, a colleague at the asylum, Alzheimer spent the following years working on a major six volume study, the 'Histologic and Histopathologic Studies of the Cerebral Cortex,' describing the pathology of the nervous system. The work was finally published between 1907 and 1918.
In search of a post where he could combine research and clinical practice, Alzheimer became research assistant to Emil Kraepelin at the Munich medical school in 1903. There he created a new laboratory for brain research. Having published many papers on conditions and diseases of the brain, it was in 1906 that Alzheimer gave a lecture that made him famous. In it, Alzheimer identified an 'unusual disease of the cerebral cortex' which affected a woman in her fifties, Auguste D., and caused memory loss, disorientation, hallucinations and ultimately her death aged only 55. The post-mortem showed various abnormalities of the brain. The cerebral cortex was thinner than normal and senile plaque, previously only encountered in elderly people, was found in the brain along with neurofibrillary tangles. Alzheimer had access to a new stain and was able to identify these nerve tangles which had never previously been described. Kraepelin named the disease after Alzheimer.
Alzheimer married a banker's widow, Cäcilia Geisenheimer, in 1894, a match which made him financially independent. Unfortunately, Cäcilia died in 1901 after only seven years of marriage. One of Alzheimer's daughters, Gertrude, later married the physician Georg Stertz, who assumed the chair of psychiatry at Munich in 1946.
In 1913, on his way to Breslau to take up the post of chair of the department of psychology at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Alzheimer caught a severe cold complicated by endocarditis, from which he never fully recovered. He died in 1915 at the age of 51 and was buried next to his wife in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.
Today, the pathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is still generally based on the same investigative methods used in 1906. This is remarkable compared with the development of investigative methods for other diseases, and it speaks volumes about the quality of Alzheimer's discovery."

"Professor Alois Alzheimer (14th June 1864 - 19th December 1915), the great German physician-psychiatrist whose name is synonymous with senile dementia (viz. Alzheimer's disease), passed away precisely a century ago. This video chronicles his memorable life and important achievements, and hopes to make more widely appreciable, the distinguished legacy of this early pioneer in neuropathology."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3LMYLemfwM

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A truly terrible and devastating disease. Hoever, the first step in combating it, is to identify it, just as we do with our enemies. He did a good job of describing the condition without all the tools we have at our disposal. Hopefully we will continue the process until we find a cure.
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Went through this with my Mother in Law...Kept her with us til the end.