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Overview
Historical Perspective
The disease was first described in 1865 by Armand Trousseau in an article on diabetes in patients with changing skin color.[1] Trousseau did not connect the diabetes with iron accumulation; instead this was done by Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen in 1890.[2][3]
References
- ↑ name=Trousseau_1865>Trousseau A (1865). "Glycosurie, diabète sucré". Clinique médicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. 2: 663&ndash, 98.
- ↑ von Recklinghausen FD (1890). "Hämochromatose". Tageblatt der Naturforschenden Versammlung 1889: 324.
- ↑ Biography of Daniel von Recklinghausen