Disease relevance of Prosper

• Although the symptom of vertigo had been well-recognized for several thousand years, it was not until the pioneering work of Prosper Ménière in the mid-19th century that it was appreciated that vertigo could originate from damage to the inner ear [1].
• BACKGROUND: A possible link between Ménière's disease (MD) and migraine was originally suggested by Prosper Ménière [2].
• In 1861, Prosper Ménière presented a paper before the French Academy of Medicine in which he described a series of patients with episodic vertigo and hearing loss [3].
• The case of the saltimbanque Prosper Lecomte. A contribution to the study of the history of progressive muscular atrophy (Aran-Duchenne) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Charcot) [4].
• In 1861 Prosper Menière separated patients with episodic vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus from a group previously described as having apoplectiform cerebral congestion [5].

High impact information on Prosper

• The authors point out that Prosper Meniere's description of his syndrome (an inner-ear disorder) was not well known when Van Gogh died and that it often was misdiagnosed as epilepsy well into the 20th century [6].

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