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The Hesitant Acceptance of the Discovery of the Cerebrospinal Fluid by Magendie

Ernst M. H. van den Doel, MD

Arch Neurol. 1987;44(12):1303-1305.

Abstract
• The diagnosis of a "serous apoplexy," customary in the first half of the 19th century, was based on the lack of knowledge regarding the normal presence of the cerebrospinal fluid. Balzac's descriptions of three cases of serous apoplexy draw our attention to the fact that the discovery of the cerebrospinal fluid by François Magendie was not assimilated into clinical medicine until the second half of the 19th century.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Clinic, State University Hospital, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Dr van den Doel is now with the Department of Neurology, Algemeen Ziekenhuis Maarschlaksbos, Baarn, the Netherlands.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 25, 1987.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Algemeen Ziekenhuis Maarschlaksbos, Molen-weg 2, 3743 CM Baarn, the Netherlands (Dr van den Doel).

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