head to: next, in 1901, the german psychologist dr alois alzheimer treated a 51—year—old woman who hadecame known as alzheimer's disease. witness history spoke to professor konrad maurer, who first discovered dr alzheimer's original long—lost case files. alois alzheimer, he was a doctor, a physician in the psychiatric hospital in frankfurt in 1888, and he was obsessed, you know, from the idea that psychiatric diseases are like other diseases, are diseases of the body, in this case of the brain, and i have to find a case where i can prove this. and the first case, actually, was auguste deter. she was 51. she was a normal housewife. suddenly, out of the sky, in 1901, she gotjealous and then, she got forgetful, and was also very loud, and cried. alois alzheimer said, "that is my case". he wrote a very detailed case history, how he saw auguste deter for the first time, but this case file had been lost and nobody knew exactly where it could be. we went into the archive and, suddenly, we found this file laying somewhere, and that was the file of auguste deter. the file must have laid there f

head to: next, in 1901, the german psychologist dr alois alzheimer treated a 51—year—old woman who hadscovered became known as alzheimer's disease. witness history spoke to professor konrad maurer, who first discovered dr alzheimer's original long—lost case files. alois alzheimer, he was a doctor, a physician in the psychiatric hospital in frankfurt in 1888, and he was obsessed, you know, from the idea that psychiatric diseases are like other diseases, are diseases of the body, in this case of the brain, and i have to find a case where i can prove this. and the first case, actually, was auguste deter. she was 51. she was a normal housewife. suddenly, out of the sky, in 1901, she gotjealous and then, she got forgetful, and was also very loud, and cried. alois alzheimer said, "that is my case". he wrote a very detailed case history, how he saw auguste deter for the first time, but this case file had been lost and nobody knew exactly where it could be. we went into the archive and, suddenly, we found this file laying somewhere, and that was the file of auguste deter. the file must have la