Dr Hermann Oppenheim (1858 - 1919) Oppenheim was born in Germany and after completing medical school, he showed great interest in physiology and later in psychiatry. He published on tabes dorsalis, bulbar paralysis, lead interaction with associated neuritis, alcoholism, anterior poliomylitis, syphillis, multiple schlerosis and even traumatic neuroses. In 1890, he opened his own centre for clinical neurology. He wrote effusively on brain tumours, syphillis of the brain, coined the term dystonia muscular indeformins, was a great clinical neurologist, a great diagnostician and also a fine therapist. His description of aimiotonia congenita or Oppenheim's disease is a fitting monument to this great scientist.