In the year 1824 a scientist named Charles Bell published a paper discussing this previously unknown disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. In 1939, Baseball player Lou Gehrig contracted this disease. Since he was so well known at the time, the disease was nicknamed the Lou Gehrig Disease.
He had Amythropic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS). It is a disease that causes the brain to not be able to controls muscles, and the non-use of muscles eventually deteriorates and practically rots them. It is also known as Lou Gehrig disease.
ALS was first described as a disease sometime in the 1920's, as I recall. It was one of the most obscure of all reallyobscure diseases - many doctors were not even familiar with it. Once Lou Gehrig's condition was properly diagnosed, the public wanted all the information it could get on the disease, and it logically came to be called, offhandedly, "Lou Gehrig's Disease". Common for many years, that is gradually fading out as it is more and more being referred to as "ALS" again. Should the reader wonder, it stands for "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis".
He started to show tiring symptoms in 1938, when he was 35, but he could have started to actually have symptoms earlier than that.
That is because when Lou Gehrig, a popular baseball player with the Yankees was diagnosed with ALS, anyone after Lou, who was diagnosed , would be compared to the person, the infamous Lou Gehrig, who in all honesty made ALS known to the public.
ALS stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It is commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease, named after Lou Gehrig, a hall-of-fame baseball player for the New York Yankees that was diagnosed with ALS in 1930s. ALS is a neuromuscular disease that degenerates the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
Lou Gehrig's diagnosis was confirmed on June 19, 1939, it was his 36th birthday. The tests were confirmed positive at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
No. ALS was first found in 1869 by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, but it wasn't until 1939 that Lou Gehrig brought world-wide attention to the disease. After ending the career of one of the most beloved baseball players of all time, the disease is still closely associated with his name.
No, they did not.
Lou Gehrig
When Lou Gehrig began showing symptoms of the disease is not really known but his performance on the field started to drop off during the 1938 season and he also complained about being tired a lot. He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in June, 1939 and passed away on June 2, 1941. So he lived 2 years after being diagnosed with the disease and may have been showing symptoms a year before he was diagnosed.
ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease
ALS
ALS -Lou Gehrig's DiseaseOn June 2, 1941 at the age of 37, Lou Gehrig succumbed to Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) known today as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
When he got a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis aged 21
On June 2, 1941 Lou Gehrig succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age 37. Today ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.