 Several 19th century English physicians , starting with Henry Gawen Sutton ( 1836 – 1891 ) and followed by Benjamin Guy Babington ( 1794 – 1866 ) and John Wickham Legg ( 1843 – 1921 ) , described the most common features of HHT , particularly the recurrent nosebleeds and the hereditary nature of the disease . The French physician Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu ( 1844 – 1902 ) observed the skin and mucosal lesions , and distinguished the condition from hemophilia . The Canadian @-@ born Sir William Osler ( 1849 – 1919 ) , then at Johns Hopkins Hospital and later at Oxford University , made further contributions with a 1901 report in which he described characteristic lesions in the digestive tract . The English physician Frederick Parkes Weber ( 1863 – 1962 ) reported further on the condition in 1907 with a series of cases . The term " hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia " was first used by the American physician Frederic M. Hanes ( 1883 – 1946 ) in a 1909 article on the condition . 
