Robert Froriep

Robert Friedrich Froriep (February 2, 1804 - June 15, 1861) was a German anatomist who was a native of Jena. He studied medicine in Bonn, and later became Prosector at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, where he was mentor to Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). He held this position from 1833 until 1846, and supplemented his income as a teacher of anatomic drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1846 Virchow succeeded Froriep as Prosector at the Charité. In 1846 Froriep became director of the "Weimarischer Landes-Industrie-Comptoir" in Weimar, where he was a publisher of illustrated scientific and medical works. He was the father of physician August von Froriep (1849-1917).

In 1843 Froriep was the first to mention the symptoms of fibromyalgia in a treatise called ""Ein beitrag zur pathologie und therapie des rheumatismus". He referred to the condition as "muskelschwiele" or muscle calluses. He described the calluses as "tender areas in muscle that felt like a cord associated with rheumatic complaints".

References

* [http://www.jintmed.com/trigger.htm History of Fibromyalgia]
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3249.html Who Named It?, Robert Freidrich Froriep]