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Multiple sclerosis
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    The recognition of multiple sclerosis as a clinical entity different from other movement disorders or spinal paraplegias was made by Charcot in 1868. Previously multiple sclerosis had been repeatedly confused with paralysis agitans. It was Charcot who made the first definitive pathological description that distinguished the two diseases. The pathological lesions of multiple sclerosis, …

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