A Norse Contribution to the History of Neurological Diseases
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is prevalent in areas with many inhabitants of Scandinavian descent, and a ‘Viking gene’ hypothesis has been suggested for the dissemination of the disease. It is therefore relevant to search Norse sagas for descriptions of clinical pictures which could have been MS. The saga...
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crskarger:10.1159/000091431 2024-06-23T07:53:58+00:00 A Norse Contribution to the History of Neurological Diseases Holmøy, Trygve 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000091431 https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/91431 en eng S. Karger AG https://www.karger.com/Services/SiteLicenses https://www.karger.com/Services/SiteLicenses European Neurology volume 55, issue 1, page 57-58 ISSN 0014-3022 1421-9913 journal-article 2006 crskarger https://doi.org/10.1159/000091431 2024-06-05T04:07:23Z Multiple sclerosis (MS) is prevalent in areas with many inhabitants of Scandinavian descent, and a ‘Viking gene’ hypothesis has been suggested for the dissemination of the disease. It is therefore relevant to search Norse sagas for descriptions of clinical pictures which could have been MS. The saga of Bishop Thorlak describes a woman named Halldora, who suffered from transient paresis between 1193 and 1198. The diagnosis is uncertain, but the story shows that symptoms associated with MS were known in Iceland at the end of the 11th century. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Karger European Neurology 55 1 57 58 |
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is prevalent in areas with many inhabitants of Scandinavian descent, and a ‘Viking gene’ hypothesis has been suggested for the dissemination of the disease. It is therefore relevant to search Norse sagas for descriptions of clinical pictures which could have been MS. The saga of Bishop Thorlak describes a woman named Halldora, who suffered from transient paresis between 1193 and 1198. The diagnosis is uncertain, but the story shows that symptoms associated with MS were known in Iceland at the end of the 11th century. |
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