““In the past 100 years there have been a number of different terms for autism and its manners of presentation. It was in 1908 that the word “autism” was first used by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler to describe self-absorbed patients with schizophrenia. Dr. Leo Kanner referred to some of his patients as being “autistic” in 1943. Hans Asperger in 1944 was labeling some of his patients as autistic psychopaths. For a while, autistic patients were said to be suffering “Kanner's syndrome” and others who were affected somewhat differently were said to be afflicted with Asperger syndrome.””
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
