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Congenital absence of hair and mammary glands with atrophic condition of the skin and its appendages in a boy whose mother had been almost wholly bald from alopecia areata from the age of six.

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Med.-chir. Trans., 69, 473-77. 1886 CE.

First description of progeria.

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