n :  PERONEAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY
P. Marie see MARIE-STRÜMPELL DISEASE
 
Tooth, Howard Henry (1856-1925), British physician. Tooth enjoyed a varied career as a consulting physician to a British hospital for the paralyzed and epileptic, as an examiner in medicine at Cambridge and Durham universities, and as physician to British troops in Malta. In 1886 he published a description of peroneal muscular atrophy. In that same year an independent description of the disease was published jointly by Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Marie.
 
 
 
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