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A Tribute to Martinus Rulandus

1989; American Medical Association; Volume: 46; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archneur.1989.00520400105027

1538-3687

Alexander C. van Huffelen,

Diet and metabolism studies

There is a tendency to call benign focal epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal origin rolandic epilepsy for the sake of brevity. Martinus Rulandus, a 16th-century medical author, deserves this homage far more than Rolando. Attention is drawn to this 1597 description of the disease, which has become the subject of many publications since 1952. Many characteristics of the disease were already noticed about four centuries ago.