A naked man with motor neuron disease, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Eadweard Muybridge

1887

1 print : collotype

Wellcome Collection

"The gait in lateral sclerosis. This gait was studied in Plate 548. The subject was a patient of the University Hospital and was under the care of Dr. William Pepper. His history was as follows :* (* See Philadelphia medical Tmes, October 31, 1885. Clinical Lecture by Professor Pepper.) "H. S., aged twenty-eight years, single, is an engineer by occupation, and had been working on a railroad in Wyoming Territory until three or four months ago, when he came to this city. When a child he had diphtheria, which was followed by dropsy and paralysis. Later he was thrown on a hot stove and severely burned, the scar being visible on the epig