Edward Flatau
Polish neurologist (1868-1932) · Poland · On the map · Doctors · Died at 63
Edward Flatau was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical journals Neurologia Polska and Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
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Left Siegfried Kalischer, Edward Flatau (points to a book), Louis Jacobsohn-Lask, Bernhard Pollack, around 1900 in Berlin
First page of Atlas of the human brain and the course of the nerve-fibres (1894)
Template from the English edition of the brain atlas
Edward Flatau is preparing pictures for his brain atlas.
First page of Das Gesetz der excentrischen Lagerung der langen Bahnen im Ruckenmark (1897)
German edition of 1912 Die Migrane, one of the first modern books on migraine headaches in 20th century![Dr. med. E. Flatau. Nervous and mental diseases. Chmielna 60 Street [Warsaw]. Hours 5 pm and 1/2 till 7 pm and 1/2. This is medical doctor seal from a medical prescription issued on 27 August 1920.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Pieczatka1.jpg/500px-Pieczatka1.jpg)
Dr. med. E. Flatau. Nervous and mental diseases. Chmielna 60 Street [Warsaw]. Hours 5 pm and 1/2 till 7 pm and 1/2. This is medical doctor seal from a medical prescription issued on 27 August 1920.About this person
His name in medicine is linked to Redlich-Flatau syndrome, Flatau-Sterling torsion dystonia, Flatau-Schilder disease, and Flatau's law. His publications greatly influenced the developing field of neurology. He published a human brain atlas (1894), wrote a fundamental book on migraine (1912), established the localization principle of long fibers in the spinal cord (1893), and with Sterling published an early paper (1911) on progressive torsion spasm in children and suggested that the disease has a genetic component.
