Alfaro-Ávila MÁ, Pérez-Neri I, Diéguez-Campa CE

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 28-31
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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.

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