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George Huntington: the man behind the eponym.
George Huntington first encountered patients with the disease subsequently given his name at the age of 8 while accompanying his father and grandfather on their medical rounds. In 1872, in his twenty-first year, he described this disease so accurately and succinctly that the disease was later named after him. We have explored, through contact with previously unpublished family records and docum...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mayo Clinic Proceedings
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0025-6196
DOI: 10.1016/s0025-6196(11)64008-1