GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thesis Statement, Neuron Doctrine, Ergot
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Als got its name by how it was reflected by the disease it"s about the progression of research on als. Methods changed on how they did research this reflected on how its name changed. Charcot was the first person to use the clinical anatomical method/clinical pathological method. Details the symptoms this method is correlating symptoms in life with autopsy evidence. Classifies the disease symptoms with other disease symptoms. Cajal talks about his life before he got into the field. Got his ego get in the way with science when it came with golgi. Cajal thinks he is very humble tension between cajal and golgi. But he doesn"t think cajal is wrong, he blames everything on golgi. Golgi believed that everything was a network. Cajal believed that the cells were discrete. neuron doctrine. Ergot fungus and acetylcholine made neurons fire. Dale discovered accidentally by finding the fungus. Loevi"s discovery of the frog heart expemplified)