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Race to Discover Etiology
- 1810 Etienne Michel Bouteille (1732-1816) first to recognize Sydenham's and rheumatism
- 1831 Richard Bright (1789-1858) classified chorea under heading of rheumatism
- 1850 Germain See (1818-1896)
- "chorea is a result of a rheumatic diathesisfor every two rheumatic children there is at least one who is choreic"
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