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Huntington's disease: what we learned from the original essay.
Since the first descriptions of chorea in the Middle Ages, medicine has been captivated by the mysterious appearance of patients suffering from contortions of the body. Many innocent victims were persecuted and even tried as witches as the medical community struggled to arrive at a better understanding of Huntington's disease. ⋯ Accurate descriptions before and after Huntington's essay about hereditary chorea have provided humanity to sufferers and the nidus for new discovery within the field of movement disorders.