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Joseph Merrick, better known as The Elephant Man has been erroneusly refered to as "John Merrick" due to the writings of dr. Frederick Treves who was by many accounts a good friend in his last years of life, were the names "John" and "Joseph" in any way interchangable at the time?

by /u/eightofstorms in /r/AskHistorians

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