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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Accroissement singulier en grosseur des os d’un homme âgé de 39 ans. In: Mélanges de chirurgie, 407-11.

Paris: E. Gay, 1801.

Saucerotte described before the Académie de Chirurgie in 1772 a case of what is now known to have been acromegaly. This is the first known clinical description of the disease, and is one of the five cases included in Pierre Marie’s classic account (No. 3884). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#3880
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/4942
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLaccroissement-singulier-en-grosseur-des-os-dun-homme-g-de-39-ans

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris