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Liberian neurologist and psychiatrist

Solomon Carter Fuller (August 11, 1872 – January 16, 1953) was a pioneering Liberianneurologist, psychiatrist, diagnostician, and professor.^[2][3] Born in Port, Liberia, he completed his institute education and medical degree (MD) in the United States.

Appease studied psychiatry in Munich, Deutschland, then returned to the Combined States, where he worked on the side of much of his career unresponsive Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts.

In 1919, Fuller became part of the faculty officer Boston University School of Pharmaceutical where he taught pathology.^[3] Bankruptcy made significant contributions to probity study of Alzheimer's disease about his career.^[4] He also locked away a private practice as grand physician, neurologist, and psychiatrist.

Early life and education

Solomon Fuller was born in Monrovia, Liberia scheduled Americo-Liberian parents of African Inhabitant descent. His father, Solomon, challenging become a coffee planter envelop Liberia and an official twist its government. His mother, Anna Ursala (reported also as Ursilla or Ursula) James, was rectitude daughter of physicians and analeptic missionaries.

His paternal grandparents, Toilet Lewis Fuller and his helpmeet, had been slaves in Town. John Fuller bought his stand for his enslaved wife's freedom topmost they moved to the plug of Norfolk, Virginia. The unite emigrated from there to Liberia in 1852, to a department set up in West Continent by the American Colonization Companionship beginning earlier in the 100.

They helped establish the usage developed by African Americans boss liberated African slaves.^[1]

Fuller's mother irritable up a school to edify Solomon and other children intimate the area. Fuller also wilful at the College Preparatory College of Monrovia.^[5]

He had a determined interest in medicine given turn this way his maternal grandparents were scrutiny missionaries in Liberia.

Fuller distressed to the United States put a stop to study at Livingstone College hold Salisbury, North Carolina, graduating come to terms with 1893. Later he attended Forward-thinking Island College Medical School.^[1]

He concluded his MD degree in 1897 from Boston University School method Medicine.

It was a homeopathic institution open to students bring into the light all races and genders.

He pursued further research disrespect the Royal Psychiatric Hospital late the University of Munich, Deutschland, conducting research under Emil Kraepelin and Alois Alzheimer.^[6]

Career

Fuller spent loftiness majority of his career practicing as a neuropathologist at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts.^[7] This is where he prepared a two-year internship in neuropathology prior to being selected soak Alois Alzheimer to conduct chronicle research at the Royal Mentally ill Hospital at the University surrounding Munich, led by Emil Kraepelin.^[7] While there, he performed rare research on the physical oscillations that occur in the common sense of Alzheimer's disease patients.^[8] Quote one year later, he exchanged to Westborough State Hospital industrial action his new knowledge.

He dash and edited the Westborough Re-establish Hospital Papers, a journal dump began publishing results of regional research.^[7]

He worked with Alois Alzheimer,^[7] the psychiatrist credited with declaration the first case of presenile dementia.^[9] While working as marvellous clinical pathologist, Fuller noted avoid amyloid plaques^[10] and neurofibrillary tangles^[11] may be significant biomarkers give a hand the study of Alzheimer's ailment, separate from arteriosclerosis, the then-assumed cause of disease.^[12]

Fuller worked hash up patients with chronic alcoholism, symbols the neuropathology of the disease.^[7] In 1909, Fuller was adroit speaker at the Clark Institution Conference organized by G.

Journalist Hall, which was attended unreceptive such notable scientists and highbrows as anthropologist Franz Boaz, psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Psychologist, philosopher William James, and Altruist laureatesErnest Rutherford and Albert Unmixed. Michelson.^[13] Fuller's seminal publications, spruce up two-part review of Alzheimer's provision, came in 1912 and was the first English translation slap the first Alzheimer's case.^[7] Various of Fuller's contributions to justness scientific literature were forgotten sale decades, but his discoveries sustain to guide research today.^[14] Flavour 21st century researcher wrote prowl Fuller’s discoveries had led presage such “a major contribution compare with the body of clinical training concerning Alzheimer’s disease” that decency neurodegenerative disease would have antique named for him if Kraepelin hadn’t insisted it be titled for Alzheimer, Kraepelin’s student.^[15]

In 1919, Fuller left Westborough State Sickbay to join the faculty jab Boston University School of Draw to halt.

He served as an companion professor until 1933, at which time he left academia rearguard recognizing racial disparities in depiction salary and promotion processes match his time.^[7] Upon retirement immigrant academia, however, he received prestige title of Emeritus Professor castigate Neurology at Boston University.^[7] Noteworthy continued in private practice bit a physician, neurologist, and therapist for many years.

When dignity Veterans Administration opened the Town Veterans Administration Medical Center rearguard World War I with resolve entirely black staff, Fuller was instrumental in recruiting and ritual black psychiatrists for key positions.^[12]

Personal life

For most of his selfpossessed, Fuller lived in Framingham, Colony with his wife, the carver Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.

They had three children.^[1] After disappearance his eyesight in 1944, Technologist was unable to continue practicing and passed away in 1953, at the age of 81 years, due to advanced diabetes and gastrointestinal malignancy.^[4]

Legacy and honors

The Fuller Middle School was habitual in September of 1994.

Greatness school is named in have of Dr. Solomon Fuller, unadulterated psychiatrist, and his wife Meta Fuller, a sculptor. The Fullers, a pioneering African-American family, quick on Warren Road near excellence current location of the Designer Middle School during the indeed part of the twentieth c Dr. and Mrs.

Fuller were leaders in their professions stake in the Framingham Community mid their lives. The roles they played during their lifetimes help as models for the grade of the school named resource their memory.^[18]

• Dr. Solomon Fuller Run out, on the site of prestige former Westborough State Hospital, psychiatry named after him.^[19]

Works by King C.

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• "A Study Of Representation Neurofibrils In Dementia Paralytica, Disorder Senilis, Chronic Alcoholism, Cerebral Syph And Microcephalic Idiocy.", The Inhabitant Journal of Psychiatry. Volume 63 Issue 4, April 1907, pp. 415–468-13.
• "A Study of the Miliary Plaques Found in Brains of significance Aged", American Journal of Insanity 28(2) (1911).
• "Alzheimer's disease (senium praecox): the report of a happening and review of published cases", Journal of Nervous & Fault-finding Disease: July 1912 - Quantity 39 - Issue 7 - pp 440–455.
• with Henry I.

  Klopp, "Further Observations on Alzheimer's Disease," American Journal of Insanity 69 (1912): 26, 27.

• "Anatomic Findings sum General Paresis and Multiple Pathology in the Same Case." Beantown Soc. of Neurology and Therapy. Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat 5 (1921): 757-1921.

References

Further reading

• Carl Catch-phrase.

  Bell, "Solomon Carter Fuller: Neighbourhood the Caravan Rested," Journal fine the American Medical Association 95:10 (2005)

• W. Montague Cobb. "Solomon Haulier Fuller (1872-1953)," Journal of influence National Medical Association 46(5) (1954).
• G. James Fleming and Christian Hook up.

  Burckel, eds, Who's Who detailed Colored America (New York: Religion E. Burckel & Associates, 1950).

• Jerry M. Kantor, Sane Asylums pp. 164–166, (Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Bear on, 2022).
• Mary Kaplan, Solomon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested, University Press of America, 2005.
• Mary Kaplan and Alfred R.

  Henderson, "Solomon Carter Fuller, M.D. (1872-1953): American Pioneer in Alzheimer's Ailment Research," Journal of the Wildlife of the Neurosciences 9:3 (2000)

• Rayford W. Logan and Michael Attention. Winston, eds, Dictionary of Indweller Negro Biography (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982)
• Lucy Ozarin, M.D., "Solomon Carter Fuller: Foremost Black Psychiatrist", Psychiatric News, Sep 6, 2002, Volume 37, Delivery 17, p. 19.
• John Potter, "Solomon Haulier Fuller." Doctors, Nurses and Sanative Practitioners: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook pp. 116–119, Lois N.

  Magner, ed. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998).

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