Travel journal, 1949.

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Travel journal, 1949.

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Authorship undocumented; early entries provide some objective evidence to identify author as Lewy. Journal documents a lecture tour and visits to neurophysiology laboratories in South America with the special purpose of investigating Pio del Rio-Hortega's ammoniacal silver carbonate methods of tissue staining and their potential use in categorizing brain tumors. Journal covers the reasons for the trip; what he hopes to investigate; conversations with colleagues and individuals he befriended en route concerning diseases of mutual interest; observations on the political economy, customs and mores of both the medical milieu and South American society in general; descriptions of the environment and culture. The journal ends abruptly during a trip to Machu Pichu.

[88] leaves ; 22 cm.

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Lewy, Friederich Heinrich, 1885-1950

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Lewy described neuronal inclusions in the brain of patients who had suffered from Paralysis agitans (i.e., Parkinson's disease). Later, these findings became the so-called "Lewy bodies." Exiled from Germany in 1933, Lewy spent a year in England before emigrating to America with his wife Flora where he worked in the Department of Neurosurgery, Pennsylvania University Hospital. Between 1943 and 1946, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army and a consultant in neurology to the Surgeon General....