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William Pepper
American physician, born August 1874; died 1947.
Associated eponyms:
Hutchison's disease
This syndrome consists of a malignant tumor, often metastasing to the liver, lungs, and bones.
Pepper's syndrome
An inherited disorder characterized by craniofacial anomalies, skeletal abnormalities, obesity, mental retardation, and myotonia; without short stature or hypogonadism.
Biography:
The Pepper family occasioned the saying that to get into the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania you had to get out of or into a Pepper pelvis. William Pepper followed his father and grandfather in the position of professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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