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- Title
A Water Baby ¿Meningoencefalitis parasitaria?
- Authors
Miguel Ángel, Alfaro-Ávila; Iván, Pérez-Neri; Carlos Eduardo, Diéguez-Campa
- Abstract
Neurological diseases have been reflected in art throughout history. From Egyptian culture to contemporary doctors have represented such diseases in their works. Herbert James Draper was a classist painter of the Victorian era who focused his work about the mythology of ancient Greece; among his most outstanding works are 'Lament for Icarus', 'Ulysses and the Sirens' and 'A Water baby'; the latter has a peculiar semiological finding. The infant's attitude refers to a syndrome of meningeal irritation and the context suggests a parasitic etiology, worthy of a clinical analysis.
- Subjects
EGYPT; GREECE; DISEASES in art; CENTRAL nervous system diseases; NAEGLERIA; NEUROLOGICAL disorders; ART; CULTURE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYTHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY
- Publication
Archivos de Neurociencias, 2018, Vol 23, Issue 3, p28
- ISSN
1028-5938
- Publication type
Article