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Leeuwenhoek's disease
Associated persons:
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Description:
Respiratory myoclonus - repetitive involuntary contractions of the diaphragm and accessory muscles of respiration. This results in shortness of breath and epigastric pulsations.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek complained of these symptoms in 1723 - cardiac palpitations were diagnosed but he doubted the diagnosis as his arterial pulse was slower and more regular than his epigastric pulsations which he felt were diaphragmatic in origin.
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