BBCNEWS Witness History June 4, 2024 01:46:00
Long—lost case files. alois alzheimer, he was a doctor, a physician in the psychiatric hospital in frankfurt in 1888, and he was obsessed, you know, from the idea that psychiatric diseases are like other diseases, are diseases of the body, in this case of the brain, and i have to find a case where i can prove this. and the first case, actually, was auguste deter. she was 51. she was a normal housewife. suddenly, out of the sky, in 1901, she gotjealous and then, she got forgetful, and was also very loud, and cried. alois alzheimer said, "that is my case".