Prosper Menière: the man who located vertigo in the inner ear.

Péricles Maranhão-Filho,Eliana Teixeira Maranhão,Carolina Marques De Oliveira

doi:10.1590/0004-282x-anp-2020-0371

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Abstract

Since the Greek Aellus Galenum (129 AD - c.200/c.216), vertigo was considered a problem attributed to a cerebral disorder, diagnosed as the manifestation of apoplectiform cerebral congestion. In the mid-19th century, the Frenchman Prosper Menière changed this concept by placing the origin of this symptom in the inner ear. The main objective of this historical note is to highlight who Menière was, his work, and some aspects of the disease that bears his name.

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Since the Greek Aellus Galenum (129 AD – c.200/c.216), vertigo was considered a problem attributed to a cerebral disorder, diagnosed as the manifestation of apoplectiform cerebral congestion
Until the mid-19th century, vertigo and epilepsy were considered conditions originating from apoplectiform cerebral congestion, and the treatment consisted of bleeding, leeching, cupping, and purging[1]
In 1861, the physician Prosper Menière declared to the medical community that an inner ear lesion could cause symptoms as severe as vertigo, deafness, and vomiting when this matter was not even a debatable point

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Since the Greek Aellus Galenum (129 AD – c.200/c.216), vertigo was considered a problem attributed to a cerebral disorder, diagnosed as the manifestation of apoplectiform cerebral congestion. Em meados do século 19, o francês Prosper Menière mudou esse conceito, colocando a origem desse sintoma na orelha interna. In 1861, the physician Prosper Menière declared to the medical community that an inner ear lesion could cause symptoms as severe as vertigo, deafness, and vomiting when this matter was not even a debatable point.

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