2007-12-31 13:16:15 · 12 answers · asked by brainiak95 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
he just named it. gl
2007-12-31 13:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by dave49310 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No - because of his fame it was named after him. The medical name is "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" or "ALS". It was also called "kuru" in Africa, and was spread for years by the custom of eating a dead relative's brain to honor their memory. The practice has since stopped, but I remember reading an article a while back where it said the practice had "diminished". I know its gross, but it is true.
2007-12-31 13:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it was named after him because of his fame. It is called "Lateral Sclerosis" the medical name. People just associate his name with it as it makes it easy to understrand it was the same thing Lou had.
2007-12-31 13:20:42 · answer #3 · answered by Steiner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No..., not at all. He was a famous person that contracted it which brought attention to the disease.
You can find out more about on the MDA website.
Lou Gehrig's disease is a form of Muscular Dystrophy.
2007-12-31 13:20:34 · answer #4 · answered by backpackwayne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after Lou Gehrig, a hall-of-fame baseball player for the New York Yankees who was diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s. People in England and Australia call ALS Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The French refer to it as Maladie de Charcot, after the French doctor Jean-Martin Charcot, who first wrote about ALS in 1869
2007-12-31 13:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by peaches6 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. He invented it. Sort of. It came to him when he was playing second base. He decided he wasn't famous enough so created a paralyzing wasting illness...
2007-12-31 13:20:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No but he was the first (or one of the first) who had it *and* was able to get a diagnosis of a specific disease -- that's why they named the disease after him. Doctors "discovered" the disease when he became ill.
Hope I explained this clearly.
2007-12-31 13:20:00 · answer #7 · answered by bmi=22 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
..the disease was around before, but it was not known what it was, or its causes ...nor was it named...then when he got it ....they named it after him and found out the causes, etc..
2007-12-31 13:19:41 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was the first discovered person with the disease. That's why they named it after him. It doesn't neccessarly mean he was the first to have it.
2007-12-31 13:19:09 · answer #9 · answered by Cole 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
first well known person hence the name
2007-12-31 13:18:56 · answer #10 · answered by sweetbeesma 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most likely the most famous one to
2007-12-31 13:18:43 · answer #11 · answered by Sha-lin 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋