The Baron's complaint

Mark A Jobling

doi:10.1186/2041-2223-2-18

Abstract

The Baron's complaint

Highlights

For those who lived through the decade, a 1980s revival has been underway for a good while
On US Independence Day, a new statue was unveiled outside the American Embassy in London
The condition was always known to be relatively common in northern Europe and rare in other continents, but the Viking connection was first suggested explicitly in a paper published in 1962 [3] in which the frequency was found to be highest in Danes

Summary

Introduction

For those who lived through the decade, a 1980s revival has been underway for a good while. Apart from being a mutual admiration society, these old transatlantic allies were united by a physical condition: They both suffered from something called Dupuytren’s contracture. He described this thickening in the palm of the hand, and the progressive and permanent contraction of the fingers [1], in a lecture in 1831, and gave his name to the condition despite not being the first to report it.

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