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Sir Charles Putnam Symonds
British neurologist, 1890-1978.
Associated eponyms:
Quincke's meningitis
Intracranial hypertension of unknown origin.
Roussy-Lévy disease
A hereditary disease of the nervous system - spinocerebellar degeneration - with lower limb muscular atrophy, sensory ataxia, bilateral pes cavus, loss of deep reflexes and sometimes upgoing toes on examination of the plantar reflex.
Biography:
Sir Charles Putnam Symonds published on a variety of topics, including head injury and brain abscesses. His main affiliation during 1920 1955 was with Guy's Hospital, London. A compilation of Sir Charles Putnam Symond's work, Studies in Neurology, was published by Oxford University Press in 1970.
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