The Man Behind the Syndrome

The Man Behind the Syndrome by my friends and colleagues Peter and Greta Beighton is a delightful book which will be read eagedy and with keen intellectual pleasure by all human, medical, and dinical genetieists. The reader with a historical tum of mind will note right away that the book achieyes more than the usual entry in a dictionary of seientific biography. In addition to the standard professional data, it gives a photo and some personal glimpses of the man, allowing the reader to appreeiate his human qualities as weIl. This volume contains, so to speak, the creme de la creme, namely, those in a group whose names are daily on the lips of every practicing dinical geneticist. This interesting and instructive book is commended to all in medical genetics and the history of medieine with the highest enthusiasm and gratitude to its authors for undertaking this labor of love. A second volume is planned for more recently delineated disorders for which an eponym is not yet widely used.

Section I. Portraits and Biographies. - Albers-Schönberg, Heinrich Ernst (1865 1921). - Albright, Fuller (1900 1969). - Alport, Arthur Cecil (1880 1959). - Alzheimer, Alois (1864 1915). - Apert, Eugene (1868 1940). - Batten, Frederick Eustace (1866 1918). - Bell, Julia (1879 1979). - Biedl, Arthur (1869 1933). - Blackfan, Kenneth Daniel (1883 1941). - Brailsford, James Frederick (1888 1961). - Caffey, John Patrick (1895 1978). - Carpenter, George Alfred (1859 1910). - Charcot, Jean Martin (1825 1893). - Cockayne, Edward Alfred (1880 1956). - Creutzfeldt, Hans Gerhard (1885 1964). - Crouzon, Octave (1874 1938). - Danlos, Henri-Alexandre (1844 1912). - Dejerine, Joseph Jules (1849 1917). - De Lange, Cornelia (1871 1950). - Down, John Langdon Haydon (1828 1896). - Duane, Alexander (1858 1926). - Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand (1806 1875). - Dupuytren, Guillaume (1777 1835). - Ehlers, Edvard (1863 1937). - Ellis, Richard White Bernard (1902 1966). - Fabry, Johannes (1860 1930). - Fairbank, Harold Arthur Thomas (1876 1961). - Fanconi, Guido (1892 1979). - Franceschetti, Adolphe (1896 1968). - François, Jules (1907 1984). - Freeman, Ernest Arthur (1900 1975). - Friedreich, Nikolaus (1825 1882). - Gaucher, Phillipe Charles Ernest (1854 1918). - Gilbert, Nicolas Augustin (1858 1927). - Greig, David Middleton (1864 1936). - Heberden, William (1710 1801). - Hirschsprung, Harald (1830 1916). - Hoffmann, Johann (1857 1919). - Hunter, Charles (1873 1955). - Huntington, George Sumner (1850 1916). - Hurler, Gertrud (1889 1965). - Jaffe, Henry (1896 1979). - Jakob, Alfons Maria (1884 1931). - Jansen, Murk (1867 1935). - Kartagener, Manes (1897 1975). - Klein, David (1908 ). - Krabbe, Knud (1885 1965). - Landouzy, Louis ThéophileJoseph (1845 1917). - Laurence, John Zachariah (1829 1870). - Leber, Theodor (1840 1917). - Lichtenstein, Louis (1906 1977). - Madelung, Otto Wilhelm (1846 1926). - Marfan, Bernard Jean Antonin (1858 1942). - Marie, Pierre (1853 1940). - Meckel, Johann Friedrich the Younger (1781 1833). - Menière, Prosper (1799 1862). - Milroy, William Forsyth (1855 1942). - Moebius, Paul Julius (1853 1907). - Mohr, Otto Louis (1886 1967). - Moon, Robert Charles (1845 1914). - Morquio, Luis (1867 1935). - Norrie, Gordon (1855 1941). - Ollier, Louis Xavier Edouard Leopold (1830 1900). - Oppenheim, Hermann (1858 1919). - Osler, William (1849 1919). - Paget, James (1814 1899). - Peutz, Johannes Laurentius Augustinus (1886 1957). - Pick, Arnold (1851 1924). - Pick, Ludwig (1868 1944). - Pompe, Johannes Cassianus (1901 1945). - Refsum, Sigvald (1907 ). - Rendu, Henri Jules Louis Marie (1844 1902). - Rieger, Herwigh (1898 ). - Roberts, John Bingham (1852 1924). - Rothmund, August von (1830 1906). - Roussy, Gustave (1874 1948). - Sachs, Bernard (1858 1944). - Scheuermann, Holger Werfel (1877 1960). - Schilder, Paul Ferdinand (1886 1940). - Sheldon, Joseph Harold (1893 1972). - Smith, David W. (1926 1981). - Tay, Waren (1843 1927). - Thomson, Matthew Sydney (1894 1969). - Tooth, Howard Henry (1856 1925). - Tourette, Giles de la (1855 1904). - Treacher Collins, Edward (1862 1932). - Turner, Henry Hubert (1892 1970). - Usher, Charles Howard (1865 1942). - Van Buchem, F. S. P. (1898 1979). - Van Creveld, Simon (1894 1971). - Von Gierke, Edgar Otto Konrad (1877 1945). - Von Recklinghausen, Friedrich Daniel (1833 1910). - Von Willebrand, Erik Adolf (1870 1949). - Waardenburg, Petrus Johannes (1886 1979). - Weber, Frederick Parkes (1863 1962). -Werdnig, Guido (1844 1919). - Werner, Carl Wilhelm Otto (1879 1936). - Wiedemann, Hans Rudolf (1915 ). - Wilms, Max (1867 1918). - Wilson, Samuel Alexander Kinnier (1878 1937). - Section II. Brief Biographies. - Aarskog, Dagfinn. - Alström, Carl Henry. - Austin, James H. . - Bartter, Frederic C. . - Becker, Peter Emil. - Beckwith, J. Bruce. - Behr, Carl. - Blount, Walter Putnam. - Campailla, Ettore. - Camurati, Mario. - Clausen, Jørgen. - Coffin, Grange Simons. - Crigler, John Fielding, Jnr. - Dercum, Francis Xavier. - Diamond, Louis K. . - Dreifuss, Fritz E. . - Dubin, I. Nathan. - Dubowitz, Victor. - Dyggve, Holger V. . - Edwards, John Hilton. - Ellison, Edwin H. . - Emery, Alan E. H. . - Engelmann, Guido. - Farber, Sidney. - Fraccaro, Marco. - Fraser, George R. . - Gardner, Eldon. - Giedion, Andreas. - Goltz, Robert W. . - Goodman, Richard M. . - Gorlin, Robert James. - Hajdu, Nicholas. - Hallermann, Wilhelm. - Hanhart, Ernst. - Holt, Mary. - Jampel, Robert S. . - Jarcho, Saul. - Jeghers, Harold Jos. - Johnson, Frank B. . - Klinefelter, Harry Fitch, Jnr. - Klippel, Maurice. - Kozlowski, Kazimierz. - Kugelberg, Eric. - Laniy, Maurice. - Langer, Leonard O. . - Laron, Zvi. - Larsen, Loren J. . - Lenz, Widukind. - Léri, André. - Lévy, Gabrielle. - Liebenberg, Freddie. - Lindau, Arvid. - Lowry, Brian. - Majewski, Frank. - Marinesco, Georges. - Maroteaux, Pierre. - Marshall, Don. - McArdle, Brian. - McCort, James J. . - McCune, Donovan James. - McKusick, Victor Almon. - Melchior, Johannes Christian. - Melnick, John C. . - Menkes, John. - Najjar, Victor Assad. - Niemann, Albert. - Noack, Margot. - Nyhan, William L. . - Opitz, John M. . - Orant, Samuel. - Parkinson, James. - Pena, Sergio D. J. . - Pfeiffer, Rudolf Artur. - Poland, Alfred. - Potter, Edith. - Prader, Andrea. - Pyle, Edwin. . - Reinhardt, Kurt. - Renpenning, Hans J. . - Robin, Pierre. - Robinow, Meinhard. - Romberg, Moritz Heinrich. - Royer, Pierre. - Rubinstein, Jack. - Saldino, Ronald Michael. - Sandhoff, Konrad. . - Scheie, Harold G. . - Schimke, R. Neil. - Seip, Martin Fredrik. - Shokeir, Mohamed H. K. . - Shwachman, Harry. - Shy, George Milton. - Silver, Henry K. . - Sly, William. - Smith, Roy C. . - Sorsby, Arnold. - Spranger Jürgen. - Sprengel, Otto Gerhard Karl. - Stanescu, Victor. - Stickler, Gunnar Brynolf. - Streiff, Bernardo. - Sturge, William Allen. - Taybi, Hooshang. - Thomsen, Asmus Julius Thomas. - Trevor, David. - Von Hippel, Eugen. - Weismann-Netter, Robert. - Wiskott, Alfred. - Zellweger, Hans U. - Zollinger, Robert M. .