1865 BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy (1794 – 1866)

Hereditary epistaxis.

GMN 3064.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3717

1876 LEGG, John Wickham (1843 – 1921)

A case of haemophilia complicated with multiple naevi.

First description of multiple hereditary telangiectasis (“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease”).

GMN 2707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4422

1896 RENDU, Henri Jules Louis (1844 – 1902)

Epistaxis répété chez un sujet porteur de petits angiomes cutanés et muqueux.

Rendu’s account of multiple hereditary telangiectasis (“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease”).

GMN 2710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4428

1901 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)

On a family form of recurring epistaxis, associated with multiple telangiectases of the skin and mucous membranes.

“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.” Multiple hereditary telangiectasis was first described by Legg (No. 2707) in 1876 and later by Rendu (No. 2710) and Weber (No. 2714). Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1939, 4, 243-53.

GMN 2711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4430

1907 WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)

Multiple hereditary developmental angiomata (telangiectases) of the skin and mucous membranes associated with recurring haemorrhages.

“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.”

GMN 2714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4436