Eddy Jean wrote in part - > The American Medical Association is a federal
organization that lists

Huh????

The AMA is a non profit professional organization of physicians and surgeons
in the US.  I'm confident that they have no authority as a branch of the
government in any way shape or form

I know, I know, don't feed the trolls, but I couldn't let this howler stand
unchallenged.

Mona wrote:                                                    None of
the disease's symptoms he found and lent his name to are at all similar
to Altzheimers.
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Mona:
How do you know? Few doctors ever heard of Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome before,
or the disease he discovered 101 years ago. When speaking to  doctors on
"Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome", nearly all say, huh? Strangely, doctors'
acknowledge the late Dr. Bell from Scotland who discovered Bell's Palsy
somewhere around the 1840s but know nothing about one of our own great
American doctors, the late Dr. Hunt. It's as if the man never existed.
Now the so-called "experts" come out of the woodwork on Ramay-Hunt
Syndrome but unable to find a doctor in the entire country who knows how
to treat it. Ramay-Hunt is similar to Alzheimers, both cause memory
loss/ dementias. In fact, in my opinion, if research were done from the
ground up on Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome, I wouldn't be surprised a bit if
Alzheimers is actually Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome.
May I add here, while my hat is off to the dedicated researchers working
hard to find a cure to Alzheimers, most prefer the "easy" studies.
Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome as AD are complex. Imagine, RHS discovered 101
years ago by the FATHER OF NEUROLOGY in the United States, a consultant
to a number of NYC hospitals and mental institutions but no one follows
up on his work after his death in 1937???  Something wrong here.

EddyJean

On Jun 24, 5:05 pm, Mary_Gor...@tvo.org wrote:

Thanks to those who responded.

I missed the middle name being "Ramsay" and I'm finding the
information now.

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com

Re: Prescription Drugs  

Group: alt.support.alzheimers Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 2:05pm From:
Mary_Gordon@tvo.org
He was a US neurologist around the turn of the 20th century (i.e. he
graduated in 1893). He described some syndromes that now bear his name,
and have been broken into several types:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25632
The one now called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome II is caused by herpes zoster,
which is the chicken pox virus, getting into various facial and cranial
nerves and generally causing a lot of misery.
The guy certainly described some neurological complications of virus
infection, but he retired in 1935, which was the year they finally
isolated the tobacco mosaic virus - in other words, virology was in its
infancy.The contention that this guy had the problem of Alzheimer's
licked, soup to nuts, cause and cure... and the universe has been
conspiring since to suppress his work is ...well...insulting to all the
very fine researchers working hard over the last century.
And no Eddy Jean, I don't want to debate the subject with you.
M.
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M.
I agree with much of what you've written but where's the research on
Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome  after Dr. Hunt's death in 1937 until the present
time?  Dr. Hunt's research involved neurological (facial/cranial)
diseases but can't find serious research on RHS anywhere. Surely, Dr.
Hunt, an icon, wrote books but can't find those either. If you know who
is researching RHS, would you kindly let the readers of this newsgroup
know?

EddyJean

Re: Prescription Drugs  

Group: alt.support.alzheimers Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 2:05pm From:
Mary_Gordon@tvo.org
He was a US neurologist around the turn of the 20th century (i.e. he
graduated in 1893). He described some syndromes that now bear his name,
and have been broken into several types:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25632
The one now called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome II is caused by herpes zoster,
which is the chicken pox virus, getting into various facial and cranial
nerves and generally causing a lot of misery.
The guy certainly described some neurological complications of virus
infection, but he retired in 1935, which was the year they finally
isolated the tobacco mosaic virus - in other words, virology was in its
infancy.The contention that this guy had the problem of Alzheimer's
licked, soup to nuts, cause and cure... and the universe has been
conspiring since to suppress his work is ...well...insulting to all the
very fine researchers working hard over the last century.
And no Eddy Jean, I don't want to debate the subject with you.
M.
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Since M. doesn't want to debate,, and me at the time not wanting to stir
up the pot, I've now changed my mind because of other comments on this
newsgroup.  
The late Dr. Hunt treated patients diagnosed with Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome
for nearly 30 years before his death in 1937. Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome is
very similar to Alzheimers.  Both cause memory loss or dementias. I
don't understand the tobacco mosaic virus since plants don't get
viruses.  Dr. Hunt discovered the virus that causes RHS years before
1935.  He was familiar with what this virus could do to the brain;
otherwise, he would not have been appointed as a consultant to several
NYC hospitals AND mental institutions. If there is no coverup, where are
his books, why no followup of his "masterful" work, and why don't
doctors recognize the Hunt name and Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome?  Why is the
government mum on this disease and medical institutions unwilling to
study RHS nationwide?  Perhaps M. would let me know who are these great
researchers she mentions, and who are the researchers who studied
viruses AFTER Dr. Hunt?  Dr. Hunt came from a family of doctors who was
obsessed with the facial-cranial muscles and nerves.  Surely, this great
doctor must be turning in his grave..

EddyJean