[Ads-l] Antedating of "Lou Gehrig's Disease"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Lou Gehrig's Disease (OED 1941)

“A vitamin that combat’s Lou Gehrig’s disease is disclosed in the current issue of Medical Record, a medical magazine out today.<https://www.newspapers.com/image/160650486/?terms=%22lou%2Bgehrig%27s%2Bdisease%22>” Wilmington Morning News, November 29, 1939, p5

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro

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