EDWARD PEIRSON RICHARDSON 1881—1944

Edward Peirson Richardson Jr (1918-1998) and the discovery of PML.

Dr Edward Peirson Richardson Jr, neuropathologist and neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital who in 1958 co-authored the paper describing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, died in Boston on November 30, 1998. Dr Richardson was born on April 3, 1918 to a family with deep roots in the Boston medical community. He attended Harvard College (1939) and Harvard Medical School (194...

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Hypophysitis Edward

Hypophysitis is an uncommon inflammatory condition that may affect the pituitary gland and stalk. Patients often present with varying degrees of hypopituitarism. The diagnosis is often made presumptively based on clinical history and biochemical data but may also be supported by magnetic resonance imaging. Therapy is generally supportive in nature but may require surgery for pathological diagno...

Edward Fawcett

On September 21st, Professor Fawcett, who for forty-one years held the Chair of Anatomy in the University College, and University of Bristol, died suddenly while walking in the street. He had occupied a preeminent place in the work of the University and in the affections of many generations of medical students. He came to Bristol as a young man in 1893, four years after he had qualified at Edin...

Edward Jenner

cow-pox of one human being from another: the first of a long series of protective inoculations upon which, for a hundred years, man has been dependent for his protection against one of the most terrible disease^ to which he is exposed. From this inoculation has grown our national system of vaccination, in the creation of which the name of this Society and its former president, Edward Seaton, wi...