Table 1.
Year | Event | Location |
---|---|---|
1887* | Observation of cortical plaques (4) | Russia [47] |
1892 | Observation of plaques and tangles (1) | France [48] |
1898 | Ditto (2) | Vienna [16] |
1900 | Existence of miliary scleroses (plaques) denied | Scotland [35] |
1901 | Fischer diagnoses Frau Josefa V | Prague [3, 9] |
Alzheimer diagnoses Frau Auguste D | Frankfurt [4, 7, 8] | |
Observation of plaques (1) | Leipzig [49] | |
1903 | Death of Frau V | Prague [3, 9] |
1906 | Observation of plaques and tangles (1) | France [50] |
Observation of plaques (2) | Tokyo [51] | |
Death of Frau D | Frankfurt [4, 6-8] | |
Alzheimer describes lesions in Frau D (1) | TÜbingen [4, 6-8] | |
1907 | Observation of plaques and tangles in Frau V and others (12) | Prague [3] |
Alzheimer publishes findings on lesions in Frau D | Frankfurt [4] | |
1908 | Observation of plaques and tangles (1) | Munich [52] |
1909 | Ditto (6) | Frankfurt, Freiburg [53] |
1910 | Ditto (44) | Prague [5, 9] |
Ditto (2)** | Munich [6] | |
Ditto (8) | Michigan [54] | |
1911 | Ditto (1) | Washington [55] |
Ditto (24) | Munich [56] | |
Ditto (16) | Massachusetts [57] | |
1971 | High PN usage linked with nephrotoxicity, dementia, and F-AD lesions (6) | Glasgow [24] |
2001 | PA implicated as a cause of F-AD | London [27] |
Numbers of subjects with lesions are given in parentheses.
The results were communicated orally in 1886.
Two single cases were described elsewhere [4, 52].