1896 MARFAN, Antoine Bernard-Jean (1858 – 1942)

Un cas de déformation congénitale des quatre membres, plus prononcée aux extrémités, charactérisée par l’allongement des os avec un certain degré d’amincissement.

“Marfan syndrome”. Marfan described only the skeletal deformities. He called the condition dolichostenomelia. Later writers recorded bilateral ectopia lentis and cardiovascular complications in this syndrome.

GMN 4365.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5831

1931 WEVE, Henricus Jacobus Marie (1888 – 1962)

Ueber Arachnodaktylie (Dystrophia mesodermalis congenita, Typus Marfan).

Weve of Utrecht first clearly demonstrated the heritable nature of the Marfan syndrome (see No. 4365.1).

GMN 6372.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8311