George Huntington

“ Of this, Sir William Osler [2] wrote: “in the whole range of descriptive nosology there is not, to my knowledge, an instance in which disease has been so accurately and fully delineated in so few words. No details were given; the original cases were not even described, but to Huntington’s account of the symptomentology no essential fact has been added."
Huntington recognised the contribution that his father and grandfather, both practicing in East Hampton, Long Island, had made to the observation of the disease. ”

“ He especially noted the existent cases and studied the notes on the old cases of the peculiar form of chorea his father and grandfather had had in their practice. ... (H) is father had classified these cases. ... ”