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SAUCEROTTE, Nicolas (1741 – 1814)

1741 – 1814

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1801 CE

#3880

Accroissement singulier en grosseur des os d’un homme âgé de 39 ans. In: Mélanges de chirurgie, 407-11.

Saucerotte described before the Académie de Chirurgie in 1772 a case of what is now known to have been acromegaly. This is the first known clinical description of the disease, and is one of the five cases inclu…