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Ferreira, Bárbara Roque; Roccia, Maria Grazia; Cardoso, José Carlos; França, Katlein; Wollina, Uwe; Lotti, Torello; Fioranelli, Massimo (October 2017). "History of Morgellons disease: the same name for different psychodermatologic diseases?".
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Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head, but on the Back, and not in Men but Children, as I long ago observed in that endemial Distemper of little Children in
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It is believed to be the source of a term Mary Leitao found in 2001 to describe her son's skin condition. She chose the name "
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There is, however, no suggestion that the symptoms described by Browne are linked to the alleged modern cases of Morgellons.
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In 1935, Charles Ernest Kellett MD FRCP (1903–1978), who lectured in the history of medicine at the
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disease" from a skin condition described by Browne in
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Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
philosopher
physician
treatise
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Morgellons
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University of Newcastle medical school
"Sir Thomas Browne's A Letter to a Friend"
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10.1007/s10354-017-0552-8
"OBITUARY"
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10.1136/bmj.2.6146.1234
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1608351
"The Morgellons"
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