The Alzheimer Case was created on 2003-10-15.

No, he did not have Alzheimer's disease. He did, however, study a very special case of Auguste Deter in 1901, who had severe dementia no one had ever seen before. After his studies on severe dementias, the disease got it's name.

It is Alzheimer's.

Alzheimer's disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906

However, in the case of people with Alzheimer's disease, zinc can cause more harm than good. Some experiments indicate that zinc actually decreases intellectual function of people with this disease.