The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?
Joseph Merrick
Dr. Frederick Treves
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Prof. Evolutionary Biology
victim of neurofibromatosis type 1
Prof. Clinical Genetics
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