Rowley,
Couldn't resist the historical challenge you threw down !
"The achievements of Robert Bently Todd
J.B. Lyons
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Robert Bently Todd (1809-60) is regarded as the United Kingdom's greatest
clinical neurologist prior to Hughlings Jackson.
The latter recognised the significance of seizures commencing unilaterally
commonly called 'Jacksonian epilepsy' and the
phenomenon of post-ictal paralysis, which was observed by Todd, is spoken of
as 'Todd's paralysis.' Before discussing this,
and some of Todd's other contributions, including what Gowers referred to as
his 'discovery' of tabes dorsalis, and his
Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, I shall offer a biographical outline.
His immediate ancestors had settled in the West
of Ireland. His paternal grandfather was a surgeon and apothecary in Sligo,
from which coastal town his father, Charles
Hawkes Todd, moved to Dublin for apprenticeship in 1797, and having obtained
the Letters Testimonial or licence of the Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1803 he remained in the Irish
capital and married Elizabeth Bently. By 20 May 1831,
when R.B. Todd became a Licentiate of the RCSI, his address was 5 Charlotte
Street, London, and soon he had embarked on
a career that would be both distinguished and varied."
NB Todd's paralysis can be any focal neurological deficit after a fit,
normally fully resolving within 2-3 hours.
TTFN Rob Cocks
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From: acad-ae-med-request
To: acad-ae-med
Cc: rowley
Subject: Re: Sub-arachnoid haemorrhage
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 7:31AM
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Todd's paresis is a one-sided (unilateral) weakness that can mimic a
stroke associated with a fit. Very frightening all round, and . Dunno who
Todd was, though.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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