What is the history of Wilsons disease?

The disease bears the name of the British physician Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878–1937), a neurologist who described the condition, including the pathological changes in the brain and liver, in 1912.[20] Wilson's work had been predated by, and drew on, reports from German neurologist Carl Westphal (in 1883), who termed it "pseudosclerosis"; by the British neurologist William Gowers (in 1888);[21] by the Finnish neuropathologist Ernst Alexander Homén (in 1889-1892), who noted the hereditary nature of the disease;[22] and by Adolph Strümpell (in 1898), who noted hepatic cirrhosis.[21] Neuropathologist John Nathaniel Cumings made the link with copper accumulation in both the liver and the brain in 1948.[23] The occurrence of hemolysis was noted in 1967.[24]