Would someone post for me the medical name for elephant man’s disease and
tell me if there is and where to find a FAQ regarding this malady?

Any other info on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

It was thought that he had von Recklinghausen’s Neurofibromatosis,
but I seem to recall someone recently published an article dissenting
from that view.

It’s been a while since I did any pathology, but I believe it’s
called neurofibromatosis, and should be in any good pathology text.

The Elephant man had the so-called Proteus syndrome,and not von
Recklinghausen’s neurofibromatosis as it was long thought! For details, see
the articles by Tibbles JAR and Cohen MM in the British Journal of Medicine
1986:293:683-685 and by Cohen MM in the American Journal of Medical
Genetics 1988:29:777-782.I don’t knoe if there is a FAQ regarding this
disease.