title: [The history of trophoneurosis with special regard to Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795-1873) and the hemiatrophia].
abstract: The creation of the class trophoneurosis is owing to Romberg as well as to Henoch and Canstatt. The optional classification is based upon the general scientific basis of a correlation between form and function, also supported by a neurology upswing which, among other things, entailed the settlement of several nerval functions. The long history of this class, in spite of inadequate experimental background, can be explained by means of Romberg's authority combined with the vague reception plus a lacking clearness of Romberg's comments. Any influences of older theories of a nourishing fluid inside the nervous tube could not be proved. It is safe to assume that this theory was overcome with the discovery of the electricity as a transition modus in the mid-19th-century.
authors.affiliation: Abolgien@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bolgien
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history*; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history