Moritz Schiff, Charles Sherrington, border cells, frogs, cats and a zebra with abnormal clinical signs

Abstract

The case report presented by Frers et al. (2023) describes an interesting neurological syndrome observed in a zebra, likely to be consistent with the Schiff-Sherrington syndrome (SSS). This is well described in dogs (De Lahunta & Glass, 2014;McBride et al., 2022) and rarely described in ruminants or horses (Mayhew, 1989). The SSS, also referred to as the Schiff-Sherrington phenomenon, is an important finding during any clinical neurological evaluation that can assist in accurately defining the site of a spinal lesion.Schiff-Sherrington syndrome is a medical eponym (person after whom something was named). Moritz Schiff, born in 1823