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===Modern times=== In 1865, [[Armand Trousseau]] (a French internist) was one of the first to describe many of the symptoms of a diabetic patient with cirrhosis of the liver and bronzed skin color. The term hemochromatosis was first used by German pathologist [[Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen]] in 1889 when he described an accumulation of iron in body tissues.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Fitzsimons|first1=Edward J.|last2=Cullis|first2=Jonathan O.|last3=Thomas|first3=Derrick W.|last4=Tsochatzis|first4=Emmanouil|last5=Griffiths|first5=William J. H.|last6=the British Society for Haematology|date=May 2018|title=Diagnosis and therapy of genetic haemochromatosis (review and 2017 update)|journal=British Journal of Haematology|language=en|volume=181|issue=3|pages=293β303|doi=10.1111/bjh.15164|pmid=29663319|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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