Francis Dercum

Biography

• Born on August 10, 1856 at Philadelphia
• Died April 24, 1931

Medical Eponyms

Major Publications

• Dercum FX. A Subcutaneous Connective Tissue Dystrophy of the Arms and Back, Associated with Symptoms Resembling MYXŒDEMA. The University Medical Magazine, Philadelphia
  Volume 1.  October 1888 to September 1889 [PDF]
• Dercum FX. A Subcutaneous connective tissue dystrophy of the arms and back, associated with symptoms resembling myxoedema. Presented at the American Neurology Association Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Washington on September 19, 1888. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 1888; 119(14): 329
• Dercum FX. Three cases of hitherto unclassified affection resembling in its grosser aspects obesity, but associated with special nervous symptoms, adiposis dolorosa. American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1892; 104(5): 521-535.
• Dercum FX. Rest, mental therapeutics, suggestion. 1911
• Dercum FX. A clinical manual of mental diseases. 1917

References

Biography

• Throckmorton TB. Francis X. Dercum: Physician, teacher and philosopher. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease1942; 96(5): 529-541.
• Patel DA, Swan KG. Francis Xavier Dercum: a man for all seasons. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2014 Mar;1(3):233-7. 
• Shah S, Wang JV, Parish LC. Francis Xavier Dercum: Clinician, teacher, scientist. Clin Dermatol. 2021 Mar-Apr;39(2):348-352.

Eponymous terms

• Roux J, Vitaut L. Maladie de Dercum (adiposis dolorosa). Revue neurologique. 1901; 9: 881-888.
• Kucharz EJ, Kopeć-Mędrek M, Kramza J, Chrzanowska M, Kotyla P. Dercum’s disease (adiposis dolorosa): a review of clinical presentation and management. Reumatologia. 2019;57(5):281-287.