Alfred Milne Gossage

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Alfred Milne Gossage (1864 - 8 June 1948), was a British physician and dean of Westminster Hospital. He was an author in Garrod, Batten and Thursfield's Diseases of Children and Latham and English's System of Treatment. In 1908, he coined the term woolly hair after observing it in 18 members in three generations of a European family. He received the CBE in 1920. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. Brown, G. H. "Alfred Milne Gossage | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  2. "Obituary". British Medical Journal. 1 (4564): 1262–1263. 26 June 1948. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4564.1262. ISSN   0007-1447. S2CID   220024193.
  3. O'Connor, W. J. (1991). "Westminster Hospital Medical School". British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. p. 309. ISBN   0-7190-3282-2.
  4. Pavone, Piero; Falsaperla, Raffaele; Barbagallo, Massimo; Polizzi, Agata; Praticò, Andrea D.; Ruggieri, Martino (2 November 2017). "Clinical spectrum of woolly hair: indications for cerebral involvement". Italian Journal of Pediatrics. 43 (1): 99. doi:10.1186/s13052-017-0417-1. ISSN   1824-7288. PMC   5667512 . PMID   29096685.
  5. Orfanos, Constantin E.; Happle, Rudolf (2012). Hair and Hair Diseases. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN   978-3-642-74614-7.

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