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Historical Perspective: The British Contribution to the Understanding of Neurocysticercosis (2019)

Singh, Gagandeep (Author)
Sander, Josemir W. (Author)

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Pages: 332-344

DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2018.1564523

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2018.1564523

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Neurocysticercosis, or brain infestation with the larval stage of Taenia solium, is the most common risk factor for epilepsy in many endemic regions of the world. Hardly any cases are seen in Western developed countries, including Britain. However, a sizeable number (n = 450) was seen among British soldiers returning from deputation to India, then a British colony, first reported by Col. MacArthur at the Queen Alexandria Military Hospital in 1931. Here, we review the influence of the perceptive observations of British Army medics on the understanding of the parasitic disorder. The majority of these people presented with epilepsy. Among the contributions of the army medics were establishing the diagnosis, initially by histological examination of subcutaneous and muscular infestation, and later by radiography, clarifying the prognosis and the role of medical and surgical treatments and uncovering the close relationship between the larval (cysticercosis) and adult (intestinal tapeworm) stages of T. solium.

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