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Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921)

German neurologist and neurophysiologist Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921). Erb first compared neonatal brachial plexus palsy with that found in adults and concluded that it involved the upper roots. (Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Public domain.)