William Philip Spratling (October 13, 1863 – December 22, 1915) was an American neurologist known for his advances in the treatment and study of epilepsy; he is often described as the first American epileptologist[1] – a word he is credited with having coined in his 1904 work Epilepsy and Its Treatment.[2]
- ^ Dasheiff, RM (1994). "The first American epileptologists: William P. Spratling, MD, and Rosewell Park, MD". Neurology. 44 (1): 171–4. doi:10.1212/wnl.44.1.171. PMID 8290059. S2CID 26468741.
- ^ What is an Epileptologist?, at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Department of Neurology, 2011, via archive.org, archived July 23, 2011