日本神经内科的历史较短,过去是由部分内科或精神科医生兼作该科的诊疗工作,故神经内科本身的历史,只不过20余年。近几年来在厚生省难病研究班中组织了多种神经疾病研究班,有志于神经内科医师数在急剧地增加,肌病研究人员也在增加。过去临床上研究肌病的虽少,但在基础医学方面曾在国际上发表了研究成果,难病研究就是在这个基础上发展起来的。一、进行性肌营养不良肌营养不良是肌病中的代表。关于本病的概念大约是在19世纪后半期才逐渐确立起来,即经过Duchenne(1868)、Landouzy Dejerine(1884)、Erb(1891)等人的报告才确立起来的。其间在日本 The history of neurology in Japan is relatively short. In the past, some internal medicine or psychiatrists doused as the department’s medical treatment and treatment. Therefore, the history of neurology was only over 20 years. In recent years, a number of research programs on neurological diseases have been organized in the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and the number of neurologists is rapidly increasing. Myotopathic researchers are also on the increase. In the past, there were few studies on myopathy, but in the field of basic medicine, the research results have been published in the world. Based on this, the research on the study of difficult disease has been developed. First, the progressive muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophy is myopathy in the representative. The concept of the disease was gradually established around the latter half of the nineteenth century by the reports of Duchenne (1868), Landouzy Dejerine (1884), Erb (1891) and others. During this time in Japan