<P> The disease is named after those who classically described it : Jean - Martin Charcot ( 1825 -- 1893 ) , his pupil Pierre Marie ( 1853 -- 1940 ) ( `` Sur une forme particulière d'atrophie musculaire progressive , souvent familiale débutant par les pieds et les jambes et atteignant plus tard les mains '' . Revue médicale . Paris . 6 : 97 -- 138 . 1886 . ) , and Howard Henry Tooth ( 1856 -- 1925 ) ( `` The peroneal type of progressive muscular atrophy '' , dissertation , London , 1886 . ) </P>
how did charcot marie tooth disease get its name
named after those who classically described it