what was his medical condition?
Maffucci syndrome and polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (Albright's disease).
Joseph Merrick
In 1909, dermatologist Frederick Parkes Weber wrote an article about von Recklinghausen disease in the "British Journal of Dermatology", erroneously citing Merrick as an example of the disease, which German pathologist Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen had described in 1882, but recently it has been found that this conjecture was wrong. In fact, symptoms that are always present in this genetic disorder include tumours of the nervous tissue and bones, small warty growths on the skin, and (which is a peculiar characteristic of this disease) the presence of light brown pigmentation on the skin called café au lait spots; however, these spots were never observed on Merrick's body. For this reason, although this diagnosis was quite popular through most of the 20th century, other conjectural diagnoses were advanced, such as Maffucci syndrome and polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (Albright's disease).
who played the elephant man in ripper street UNANSWERABLE who is "joseph merrick"? Joseph Carey Merrick often erroneously called John Merrick, was an English man known for having severe deformities. where was he from? Leicester.
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Joseph Merrick [SEP] Medical condition
Ever since Joseph Merrick's days as a novelty exhibit on Whitechapel Road, his condition has been a source of curiosity for medical professionals. His appearance at the meeting of the Pathological Society of London in 1884 drew interest from the doctors present, but none of the answers nor the attention that Treves had hoped for. The case received only a brief mention in the "British Medical Journal", and the "Lancet" declined to mention it at all. Four months later, in 1885, Treves brought the case before the meeting for a second time. By then, Tom Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road had been closed, and the Elephant Man had moved on.