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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Multiple meyloma was first discovered by Dr. Samuel Solly, a surgeon working in St.Thomas hospital at London in 1844. [1]
Historical Perspective
- The most popular case of multiple myeloma is that of an English businessman named Thomas Alexander McBean, in 1850. Mr. McBean excreted a large amount of protein in his urine which was studied and described by Dr. Henry Bence Jones in the middle of the 19th century
- One of the best known cases of multiple myeloma was that of Dr. Loos that was reported by Otto Kahler an Austrian physician and pathologist [2]
References
- ↑ Moehler T, Goldschmidt H. Multiple Myeloma. Springer Science & Business Media; 2011. https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3540857729
- ↑ Kyle, RA.; Steensma, DP. (2011). "History of multiple myeloma". Recent Results Cancer Res. 183: 3–23. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85772-3_1. PMID 21509678.