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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Vier Fälle von Elephantiasis congenita hereditaria.

Virchow’s Arch. path. Anat., 125, 189-96, 1891.

First description of hereditary oedema of the legs, generally known as “Milroy’s disease” or as “Meige’s disease” (No. 4129).



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › Specific Dermatoses
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