An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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The peroneal type of progressive muscular atrophy. Thesis for the degree of M.D. in the University of Cambridge.

London: H. K. Lewis, 1886.

Tooth described peroneal muscular atrophym a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system, independently of, and in the same year as, Charcot and Marie. Known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, it is the most commonly inherited neurological disorder affecting about one in 2,500 people.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Inherited Neurological Disorders, NEUROLOGY › Myopathies
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