Muscular dystrophy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== In the 1860s, descriptions of boys who grew progressively weaker, lost the ability to walk, and died at an early age became more prominent in medical journals. In the following decade,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Laing |first1=Nigel G |last2=Davis |first2=Mark R |last3=Bayley |first3=Klair |last4=Fletcher |first4=Sue |last5=Wilton |first5=Steve D |title=Molecular Diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Past, Present and Future in Relation to Implementing Therapies |journal=The Clinical Biochemist Reviews |date=2011 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=129β134 |pmid=21912442 |pmc=3157948 }}</ref> French neurologist [[Guillaume Duchenne]] gave a comprehensive account of the most common and severe form of the disease, which now carries his name β Duchenne MD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/patient-caregiver-education/hope-through-research/muscular-dystrophy-hope-through-research|title=Muscular Dystrophy: Hope Through Research|date=23 March 2020|website=[[National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke]]|access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page