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245 10 |a C. Miller Fisher : |b stroke in the 20th century / |c Louis R. Caplan.

505 0_ |a Fisher's early years -- University of Toronto, medical school, internship and pre-war medical training -- World War ll and experience as a British naval officer -- Prisoner of war 1941- 1944 -- Reintroduction to medicine and neurology in Montreal -- Pathology at the Boston City Hospital -- Montreal 1950-1954 -- Boston and Massachusetts General Hospital. Fisher's activities and methods -- Fisher's collegiality, personality traits and idiosyncracies and his "rulesx" -- Neurological examination of the stuporous patient, lacunar infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage, and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Carotid artery and cerebral atherosclerosis, TIAs, symptoms and signs correlated with lesions at various brain locations, cervical and cranial arterial dissections, hydrocephalus and gait abnormalities -- Atrial fibrillation, memory, timing and quantity of behavior, therapeutic trials and anticoagulation of brain ischemia patients, headache and migraine -- Eye signs, syndromes, reviews and opinions -- Retirement and beyond. Fisher's last decades.

520 __ |a "When Charles Miller Fisher was born in 1913 there was little scientific knowledge about brain diseases and their treatment. Stroke, one of the most common and most feared among brain conditions, did an almost complete flip/flop during the 20th century. At the midpoint of the century, when Fisher began his career, there was little public or medical interest in stroke. By the end of the century stroke care and research was among the most intensely active areas within all of medicine. This book is the story of that change and of one physician, Dr. C. Miller Fisher, a main architect and driver of that change"-- |c Provided by publisher.