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Historical note
Cruveilhier and acoustic neuroma
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Some 20 years after the first observations published on neuromas (William Wood in 1828),1 Robert William Smith published his treatise on neuromas,2 which included a full description of von Recklinghausen’s multiple neurofibromatosis.3 But the year 1592 may be the first in which a person with neurofibromatosis was described.4
In the Medical Transactions of the Royal College of Physicians, London, forerunner of the JRCP, Mark Akenside (1721–70), gave a recognisable account …