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  British physician John Langdon Down described the first characterized Down syndrome as a distinct form of mental disability
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  John Langdon published report in 1866 about Down Syndrome
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  . The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th century by Jean Etienne Dominique Esquirol in 1938
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  . The condition was clinically described by Edouard Seguin in 1944.