The mysterious death of Georges Cuvier (1832): an early case of severe Guillain-Barr é syndrome?

Guillain-Barr é syndrome (GBS) was first described in detail by Georges Guillain (1876-1961), Jean Alexandre Barré (1880-1967) et André Strohl (1887-1977) in two soldiers during the first World War (October 13th, 1916) [1]. This disease is now known as ‘Guillain-Barré syndrome’. However, other cases were described clinically and/or pathologically before 1916. It is generally accepted that Octave Landry (1826-1865) was the first to describe the entity that he called “paralysie ascendante aiguë” (‘acute ascending paralysis’, AAP, also known as ‘Landry's paralysis’) in 1859 [2, 3], corresp onding to the first cases of ‘acute polyradiculoneuropathy’ (GBS).
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