title: Edgar Allan Poe: a case description of the Marfan syndrome in an obscure short story.
abstract: In the obscure short story “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains,” Edgar Allen Poe meticulously described a character with features remarkably consistent with the Marfan syndrome. This description appeared in fiction >50 years before the celebrated index description in the published medical research by Professor Antoine Marfan in Paris in 1896.
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. rwb2fb@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Battle
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D008382:Marfan Syndrome / Q000266:history*; D010297:Paris; D014768:Virginia