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Volume 344:1333 April 26, 2001 Number 17
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Review of The Two-Headed Boy

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To the Editor: The hostile review by Berkwits (Jan. 4 issue)1 of my book The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels contains several errors and gives potential readers a deeply misleading image of the book. For instance, Berkwits wrongly states that the patient in one of the historical cases of severe growth retardation, Nicolas Ferry, had progeria; the correct diagnosis, as is clearly stated in the book, is osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism.

The book is based on many years of original research, and versions of some of the chapters have been published in refereed journals of the history of medicine; it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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