Kierulf H
Nevrologisk poliklinikk, Oslo.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 1995 Dec 10;115(30):3738-9.
The article is meant to give new insight into the history of literature: During the last ten years of his life, Welhaven produced neither poetry nor prose and lived withdrawn in his own house, mainly because he had Parkinson's disease. He understood himself, as his doctors did--and his biographers--that he suffered from a brain disease. However, nobody was able to make a Parkinson diagnosis in Norway in the 1860s. This was perhaps possible for a handful of French neurologists, who at this time "rediscovered" James Parkinson's "An Essay on the shaking palsy" from 1817--and named the disease Maladie de Parkinson, or Parkinson's disease. When a neurologist today reads Welhaven's own observations or those of his contemporaries, and his biographies, he has little doubt about the diagnosis.
在韦尔哈文生命的最后十年里，他既没有创作诗歌也没有撰写散文，而是隐居在自己家中，主要原因是他患有帕金森病。他和他的医生以及传记作者都明白，他患的是一种脑部疾病。然而，在19世纪60年代的挪威，没有人能够做出帕金森病的诊断。对于少数法国神经学家来说，这或许是可能的，他们在这个时期“重新发现”了詹姆斯·帕金森于1817年发表的《震颤麻痹论》，并将这种疾病命名为“帕金森氏病”。如今，当一位神经学家阅读韦尔哈文自己的观察记录、他同时代人的记录以及他的传记时，他对诊断结果几乎没有疑问。
