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MArishka [77]
3 years ago
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Who was Lou Gehrig, and what was his connection to the disease bearing his name? Did he discover the disease?

Medicine
1 answer:
Lubov Fominskaja [6]3 years ago
8 0
ALS was first discovered in studies conducted between 1865 and 1869 by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. The condition became widely known in the late 1930s as Lou Gehrig's disease with the diagnosis of the American baseball player bearing the same name.
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