"The syndrome is named after Édouard Brissaud (1852-1909) and Jean Athanase Sicard (1872-1929), French physicians, who described the syndrome in 1908 in patients with infarcts secondary to neurosyphilis 2,4. However, it was first described over fifty years earlier by Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821-1879), another French physician, in 1856 2,5."