Sunday
Jun142009
June 14: On This Day in 1864 - Alzheimer's Birth
Dr. AlzheimerJune 14, 1864: The German psychiatrist and pathologist Alois Alzheimer was born on this day in 1864 at Markbreit am Mainz, Germany. In 1907, an article by Alzheimer appeared in Allgemeine Zeitschrift fur Psychiatrie, first describing the disease that was named for him. It was thought of as a kind of pre-senile dementia, usually beginning at age 40-60. Alzheimer died December 19, 1915 at Breslau, Germany.
Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 9:15AM
Reader Comments (2)
very cool! You should do a word of the day about Alzheimer's and how to pronounce it. I've always said it like 'alt-zeim-ers', but I hear doctors, yes, doctors pronounce it like all-timers. My doctor the other day was asking about my grandma who has it and he said "All-timers", I was like "wha?" I know when I get older, I don't want my doctor telling me I have 'all-timers'. Does that mean I have a grip of timers in my house? lol
here is a site where I got the 'correct' pronunciation: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=alzheimer%27s&submit=Submit
Doh! I guess you don't need to do the word of the day thing now, lol.
responding to my own post again(I'm getting good at this)
I meant "...a grip of timers in my head" Maybe I already have all timers, hehe.