Mary Broadfoot Walker: 83 years since a historical discovery

ABSTRACT Mary Broadfoot Walker was a Scottish physician who, in 1935, described in great detail the effect of an anticholinesterase drug (physostigmine) on the signs and symptoms of myasthenia gravis. An original five-minutes movie is available online and the skepticism of her contemporary British m...

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Main Authors: Vitor Martinez de Carvalho, Eduardo de Almeida Guimarães Nogueira, Gleysson Rodrigues Rosa, Yara Dadalti Fragoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2017001100825&lng=en&tlng=en