Edward Meryon
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Merion in minute book 18 may 1844
Notes From Elsewhere
Edward Meryon was an English physician of Huguenot stock. He studied medicine at University College, London, and his chief appointments were at St Thomas's Hospital and the London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis. In a communication to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in December 1851, which was published in the Transactions of the Society the following year, he described in detail eight boys in three families with a disease later to be associated with the name of Duchenne. He was particularly impressed by the predilection for males and its familial nature. He appears to have been the first physician to make a systematic study of the disorder some years before Duchenne.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1850
Publications
External Publications
Practical and pathological researches on the various forms of paralysis
By Edward Meryon
J Med Biogr. 2009 Nov;17(4):199-201. doi: 10.1258/jmb.2009.009014.
Edward Meryon (1807-80) and Charles Darwin's (1809-82) On the Origin of Species.
Emery AE1, Emery ML.
House Publications
An account of some cases of arrest of development
