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AKENSIDE, Mark (1721 – 1770)

AKENSIDE, Mark (1721 – 1770)

1721 – 1770

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1768 CE

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Observations on cancers.

AKENSIDE, Mark (1721 – 1770)
AKENSIDE, Mark (1721 – 1770)

First recorded description of multiple neurofibromatosis. Akenside was better known as a poet; he was caricatured as the republican doctor of Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.