Info I got from a Facebook page posted by Stanton Berg that I thought was interesting.
""Time dissipates to shining ether, the solid angularity of facts"..Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson died 1882 from Alzheimer's ...it is ironic that he should write this profound statement about memory of facts in time. Just a few things to keep in mind...in 1882, no one ever heard of Alzheimer's /Dementia ...it had not yet been named as a disease even though it appears to have been around since before the birth of Christ. Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer named AD about 25 years after Emerson died..the CDC and NIH did not put Alzheimer's on the list of causes of death until 1995. Aspiration pneumonia is the leading cause of death of Alzheimer's patients and is directly caused by AD. Death certificates of the 1800s are for the most part hilarious...I listened to a talk one time on death certificates and all the laughs came from the ones recorded in the 1800's...they even put down old age as a cause of death."
Mr. Berg has an informational website on Alzheimer's that has a personal touch to it. http://www.junebergalzheimers.com/
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