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15.08.2015 | Pioneers in Neurology
Vladimir M. Kernig (1840–1917)
verfasst von:
Yury V. Gavrilov, Philipp O. Valko
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neurology
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Excerpt
Few figures in medical history are remembered for one single contribution yet otherwise sink almost completely into oblivion. Such an example is Vladimir Mikhailovich Kernig (1840–1917), famous for his description of a sign of meningeal irritation in 1882 that has since been referred to as Kernig’s sign. Three decades after his death, Russian biographers already complained that virtually nothing was known about the life of their compatriot [
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