Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer‘s patient in November 1901, first described patient with Alzheimer’s Disease. Public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons. Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History!
In 1901, the Frankfurt Asylum had among its many anonymous patients a woman who left her name to posterity. Her name was Auguste Deter, and she was in her early 50s. She was unaware of the historical ...
It has been 110 years since Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer first described the disease that was subsequently named for him. His patient, Auguste Deter, had exhibited memory loss, erratic behavior and language ...
Ironically, the first person to be diagnosed with what is now Alzheimer’s disease was missing its major risk factor. When she first began showing symptoms of dementia in 1901, Auguste Deter was not ...
Ironically, the first person to be diagnosed with what is now Alzheimer’s disease was missing its major risk factor. When she first began showing symptoms of dementia in 1901, Auguste Deter was not ...
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