HISTORY
In the history of strokes, the discovery dates all the way back 2,400 years ago by Hippocrates. The original name of strokes was apoplexy, meaning "struck down by violence" in Greek. It was named apoplexy due to the fact that during, a person developed sudden paralysis and drastic health issues. Strokes were problematic for doctors; they had little knowledge of how the brain worked, much less the cause of strokes and treatment. Around the mid-1600s, Jacob Wepfer noticed that patients who died of apoplexy had bleeding in the brain. He also discovered that a blockage in one of the brain's blood could cause apoplexy. With the advancement of medical science of strokes, in 1928, apoplexy was sorted into categories based on the cause of the blood vessel problem. This led to the terms stroke, or "cerebral vascular accident (CVA". Strokes are more commonly referred to as a "brain attack", because of the similarity between a stroke and a heart attack, where both happen if the brain or heart lacked a blood supply. Currently, the amount of treatments for strokes are much more vast than before, with better knowledge about strokes and care for the stroke patients.