Frederick Parkes Weber
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Frederick Parkes Weber (1863-1962) was an English dermatologist who practiced medicine in London. His father, Sir Hermann David Weber (1823-1918) was a personal physician to Queen Victoria.
Weber contributed over 1200 medical articles and wrote 23 books over a period of 50 years. He and his wife published a philosophical medical tome in 1922, called the "Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art, Epigram, and Poetry". He was a prodigious describer of new and unique dermatological terms, and his name is ascribed to several disorders such as:
- Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome: A rare syndrome characterized by enlarged veins and arteries, limb hypertrophy and capillary malformations. Named with Maurice Klippel and Paul Trénaunay.
- Pfeifer-Weber-Christian disease: A skin disease characterized by fever; and panniculitis with atrophy of the subcutaneous fatty layer of the skin. Named with Victor Pfeifer and Henry Christian.
- Rendu-Osler-Weber disease: A syndrome characterised by small enlarged blood vessels near the surface of the skin (telangiectasia), as well as the oral, nasal and gastrointestinal mucous membranes. Named with Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu and William Osler.
- Sturge-Weber syndrome: A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes. In 1922, Weber reported the first radiologic features of brain atrophy in the disease. Named with William Allen Sturge.
- Weber-Cockayne syndrome: A form of epidermolysis bullosa. Named with Edward Alfred Cockayne.
Together with his father, Weber was an avid coin collector; their collection was donated to several places such as the Boston Medical Library, the British Museum, the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge. He was a long-standing member of the Royal Numismatic Society.
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