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Jean Baptiste Octave Landry
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Jean Baptiste Octave Landry

French physician
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  • Guillain-Barré syndrome
    / Historical developments

    …in 1859, by French physician Jean Baptiste Octave Landry, who referred to it as a form of ascending paralysis, in which symptoms start in the legs and progress upward in the body. Owing to Landry’s reports, the condition became known as Landry paralysis. In 1916, French neurologists Georges Guillain, Jean-Alexandre…

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    …in 1859, by French physician Jean Baptiste Octave Landry, who referred to it as a form of ascending paralysis, in which symptoms start in the legs and progress upward in the body. Owing to Landry’s reports, the condition became known as Landry paralysis. In 1916, French neurologists Georges Guillain, Jean-Alexandre…

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