REIMANN, Hobart Ansteth (1897 – 1986)

Periodic Disease: A probable syndrome including periodic fever, benign paroxysmal peritonitis, cyclic neutropenia and intermittent arthralgia.

One of the earliest accounts of periodic disease and fevers, later variously categorized as Periodic fever syndrome and Reimann syndrome. With Siegal-Cattan-Mamou disease, this was renamed Familial Mediterranean fever.

GMN 13511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15786