Melvin Ramsay

Doctor Melvin Ramsay was consultant physician in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK, where an outbreak of ME/CFS occurred in 1955.

Notable studies

 * 1978, 'Epidemic neuromyasthenia' 1955-1978 (Melvin Ramsay, The BMJ)
 * 1977, Icelandic disease (benign myalgic encephalomyelitis or Royal Free disease) (Melvin Ramsay, E G Dowsett, J V Dadswell, W H Lyle, and J G Parish, The BMJ)
 * 1970, Epidemic malaise (N. D. Compston, H. E. Dimsdale, Melvin Ramsay, and A. T. Richardson, The BMJ)
 * 1965, Eclipse of hysteria (Dr Betty Scott, Melvin Ramsay, The BMJ)
 * 1965, Hysteria and 'Royal Free Disease' (Melvin Ramsay, The BMJ)

ME Association
He helped create the ME Association in 1978.

Book
Author of Postviral Fatigue Syndrome: The saga of Royal Free Disease (1986).

Online presence

 * PubMed