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James Ramsay Hunt
American neurologist, born 1872, Philadelphia; died July 22, 1937, Katonah, New York.
Associated eponyms:
Kocher's sign
Eyelid phenomenon in hyperthyreosis and Basedow’s disease.
Ramsay Hunt's atrophy
An obsolete term for wasting of the small muscles of the hands without sensory loss.
Ramsay Hunt's paralysis
A disturbance with symptoms resembling those of the adult form of parkinsonism, but less intense than in Parkinson’s disease.
Ramsay Hunt's syndrome I
A rare form of progressive cerebellar dyssynergia mainly characterised by intention tremor and often associated with convulsions and myoclonic epileptic jerks.
Ramsay Hunt's syndrome II
Cephalic herpes zoster, cephalic zoster syndrome, geniculate ganglion syndrome, geniculate neuralgia, geniculate syndrome, herpes zoster articularis, herpes zoster oticus, herpes zoster syndrome.
Ramsay Hunt's syndrome III
Occupational compression neuritis of the deep palmar branch of the ulnar nerve.
Ramsay Hunt's zone
A delimitated skin area supplied by the ganglion geniculi of the N. Intermedius.
Biography:
James Ramsay Hunt graduated M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1893. He then studied in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin and returned to practise neurology in New York, working at Cornell University Medical School from 1900-1910 with Charles Loomis Dana (1852–1935). He did major research on the anatomy and disorders of the corpus striatum and the extra-pyramidal system. He was consulting physician at several New York hospitals and was appointed professor of neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1924.
THE ARTIST’S PRECEPT
"I would not paint a face
Or rocks or streams or trees –
Mere semblances of things –
But something more than these.
I would not play a tune
Upon the sheng or lute,
Which did not also sing
Meanings that else were mute.
That art is best which gives
To the soul’s range no bound;
Something beside the form,
Something beyond the sound.
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