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The "Johann Jacob
Wepfer Award" of the European Stroke Conference honors scientists for their outstanding scientific work in the field of cerebrovascular diseases and significant contributions to our knowledge about treatment of acute stroke. |
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Johann Jacob Wepfer
(December 23, 1620 -
January 26,1695) was a Swiss
pathologist and
pharmacologist
who was a native of Schaffhausen. He studied
medicine in Strasbourg, Basel and Padua, and
in 1647 returned to Schaffhausen to practice medicine.Wepfer is remembered for
his work concerning vascular
anatomy of the
brain,
and the study of cerebrovascular
disease. He was the first physician to hypothesize
that the effects of a stroke
were caused by bleeding in the brain. He also
mentioned that these symptoms could be caused by a blockage of one of the main
arteries
that supply blood to the brain. From his
postmortem studies, he provided information
concerning the carotid
and vertebral arteries that supply the brain with
blood. in 1658 he published a classic treatise regarding strokes, titled
Historiae apoplecticum.Six years before Willis he made a perfect description
of the polygon of arteries at the bottom of the brain.
Wepfer also made important contributions in the fields of
experimental pharmacology
and toxicology.
He performed pioneer research concerning the effects of toxic substances on the
heart
and blood's circulatory system. He performed
important experiments concerning the toxicity of water hemlock,
arsenic,
monkshood,
et al.
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Some Translations in Vascular Neurology
The Johann Jacob Wepfer Award 2008
Marie-Germaine Bousser
Hôpital Lariboisière AP-HP, Université Paris Diderot, Paris , France
Cerebrovasc Dis 2008;26:328–334
DOI: 10.1159/000151589
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