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James R. Dawson
American pathologist, born 1908.
Associated eponyms:
Dawson or van Bogaert encephalitis
Subacute sclerosing leukoencephalopathy.
Van Bogaert's encephalitis
A rare, chronic and progressive encephalitis in children and adolescents, involving the white matter of the cerebrum, brain stem, cerebral cortex, thalamus, and spinal cord.
Van Bogaert-Divry syndrome
A familial syndrome characterised by angiomatosis of skin and cerebral meninges with progressive demyelinisation of white matter, hemianopsia and cutis marmorata due to telangiectases.
Biography:
Dawson was a pioneer anaesthesiologist.
Bibliography:
J. R. Dawson:
Infection of chicks and chick embryos with rabies.
Science, Washington, 1939, 89: 300-301.
Cultivation of rabies virus in the chick embryo.
Soon aftewards I. J. Kligler and H. Bernkopf made a similar report, in Nature, 1939, 143: 899.
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