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Thread #66578 Message #1106928
Posted By: GUEST,Wover
01-Feb-04 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cornish toes? Take your shoes off
Subject: RE: BS: Cornish toes? Take your shoes off
Nope, he was an American surgeon.
The sequence was first described by Lewis Durlacher in 1845. The term Morton's neuralgia was introduced by Ph. Lewin in 1876. Not to be confused with Morton's syndrome, which is another entity named for the American orthopaedic surgeon Dudley J. Morton (1884-1960). Thomas George Morton's observations were confirmed by his son, Thomas S. K. Morton, in 1892.
Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton) Also known as: Morton's foot Morton's disease Morton's metatarsalgia Morton's nerve entrapment Morton's neuroma Morton's syndrome