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Conclusion: Changes of attitude regarding medical teaching and the media could dispel the confusion among physicians and journalists. For many years it was thought Joseph Merrick, widely known as the Elephant Man, had suffered from neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). In 1986, geneticists Tibbles and Cohen demonstrated that Merrick was actually afflicted with Proteus syndrome, a much rarer condition.
This article takes a closer look at what the Elephant Man disease is. To have better perspective on what this condition is, it would be best to understand first the man behind the disease. Joseph Merrick was born without any symptom of a disorder, and he lived a normal life for the first few years of his life.