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

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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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