29 Facts About Edward Flatau

Edward Flatau was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist.

Edward Flatau was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical journals Neurologia Polska and Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

Edward Flatau published a human brain atlas, wrote a fundamental book on migraine, established the localization principle of long fibers in the spinal cord, and with Sterling published an early paper on progressive torsion spasm in children and suggested that the disease has a genetic component.

Edward Flatau dealt with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the brain, treatment of muscle diseases, child neurology, peripheral nerve surgery, anatomy of the nervous system, histopathology of the nerve tissue, experimental oncology, neurophysiology, and nervous system pathophysiology.

In 1937 Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie published special edition devoted to Edward Flatau contributed mostly by his pupils.

Sigmund Freud and Edward Flatau were together editors of the magazine Annual report on progress in neurology and psychiatry in 1897.

Edward Flatau's law played an important role in the initial studies of the spinal cord.

Edward Flatau provided evidence for the laminar arrangement of spinal pathways.

Edward Flatau described the fifth, seventh, and eighth cranial nerves, and carefully outlined their nuclei.

Edward Flatau began working at the Center for Anatomy of the Charite in Humboldt University of Berlin two years after the Wilhelm Waldeyer introduced the term neuron.

Edward Flatau was the first in Poland to describe the cases of encephalitis lethargica and on occasion the name "Economo-Edward Flatau disease" was used to identify this disease in Polish medical literature.

Edward Flatau was convinced that this illness is caused by a virus which was later confirmed by Mergulis.

In 1925, Edward Flatau described in detail Schilder disease and suggested new name "encephaloleukopathia scleroticans progressive".

At the bedside of each patient, Edward Flatau discussed their cases, he listened to the voice of everyone, even the youngest doctor.

Edward Flatau was patient, forgiving, always cheerful, treating students as their beloved family.

Edward Flatau lived for some time in the apartment on Chmielna Street 60.

Edward Flatau was closely associated with attempts to re-establish Polish science during and after Russian occupation.

Edward Flatau was influential in establishing Polish medical periodicals Neurologia Polska and Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie.

Edward Flatau published in popular medicine journals such as Zdrowie, Gazeta Lekarska, and Nowiny Lekarskie.

Edward Flatau was kind enough to give me a copy of this epic work in the Polish language.

Edward Flatau was co-editor of the German journal Jahresbericht Leistungen und uber die Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie.

Edward Flatau has played an important role in the development of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw, and he created the first experimental neurobiological laboratory in Poland, and was member and contributed to development of the Warsaw Scientific Society.

Edward Flatau was taking off the cover gently and quietly placed it on the table.

In October 1911, Edward Flatau donated to the Warsaw Scientific Society his neurological laboratory, along with the entire inventory and allowance of 2,000 rubles.

For many years, Edward Flatau was the director of the neurological laboratory and was assisted by Teofil Simchowicz.

Edward Flatau headed the Laboratory of Neurobiology, between 1911 and 1923.

Edward Flatau kept notes about his illness, but they were lost during the war.

Edward Flatau died five months later, and he is buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.

Edward Flatau died in 1932, the same year as two other notable Polish neurologists and friends, Samuel Goldflam and Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski.