What's in a name? Dr. Lewey and the Lewy body
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If background training is a predictor of future success, then by any measure Fritz Heinrich Lewy was destined to succeed. He received his medical degree from the University of Berlin in 1910 and trained in both clinical neurology and psychiatry under Oppenheim and Kraepelin. The trio of Nissl, Alzheimer, and Spielmeyer directed his training in neuropathology. Between the years 1912 and 1914, he was director of the Neuropsychiatric Laboratory at the University of Breslau Medical School. In his first year at Breslau, he described the distinctive eosinophilic inclusions1 that Tretiakoff, in 1919, named in his honor.2,3 During World War I, while in the German army, he was in charge of field hospitals in France, Russia, and Turkey.
In 1934, with the flames of antisemitism spreading throughout Europe, he immigrated to the United States with …
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