| Oppenheim was born in Germany and after completing medical school showed great interest in physiology and later psychiatry. He published on tabes dorsalis, bulbar paralysis, lead interaction with associated neuritis, alcoholism, anterior poliomyelitis, syphilis, multiple sclerosis and even traumatic neurosis. In 1890 he opened his own center for clinical neurology. He wrote effusively on brain tumors, syphilis of the brain, coined the term "dystonia muscular in deformans." He was a great clinical neurologist, a great diagnostition, but he was also a fine therapist. His description of amyotonia congenita- or Oppenheim’s Disease is a fitting monument to this great scientist. |  |