NEUROLOGIC SIGNS AND THEIR DISCOVERERS

Abstract

I have briefly reviewed some of the more common neurologic signs with the hope that, by including a history of their discovery, such signs may be more deeply impressed on the minds of those who are not so familiar with their significance and value as employed in their own specialty. The neurologists have been accused of using too freely the names of discoverers of these neurologic signs as a means of denoting organic change. Such names in themselves have no meaning as far as the underlying pathologic condition is concerned, and in the opinion of the general practitioner the method is much abused. In reply, one might say that such terms as the "acute abdomen" so frequently employed by the surgeons are also much abused and rather meaningless as far as expressing a diagnosis is concerned. <h3>ARGYLL ROBERTSON PUPIL</h3> Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson was born in Edinburgh in