Robert Froriep

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Robert Froriep (1804-1861) was a German physician and Rudolf Virchow's (1821-1902) mentor when Froriep was Prosector at the Charité Hospital in Berlin. He held this position from 1833 until 1846. In 1846 Froriep became director of the Weimarischer Landes-Industrie-Comptoir in Weimar, where he was publisher of illustrated scientific and medical works. Virchow succeeded Froriep as Prosector at the Charité in 1846.

In 1843 Froriep was the first to describe the symptoms of fibromyalgia, which he called muskelschwiele or muscle calluses. He described the calluses as "tender areas in muscle that felt like a cord associated with rheumatic complaints".

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• History of Fibromyalgia