A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 4

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⁹ Vhdlg. der Bul. Med. Ges., 1866, Heft 2, p. 191, quoted by Eulenburg in Ziemssen's Handbuch, Bd. xii. 2.

¹⁰ Cases of Barth and Müller.

Of cases without autopsies a collection of 80 was made by Friedreich in the monograph on pseudo-hypertrophy which accompanies his longer monograph on progressive muscular atrophy.¹¹ Mobius has increased this list to 94;¹² Gowers describes 24 cases,¹³ and refers in an appendix to 20 more—18 observed by Adams, 2 by Clifford Albutt.¹⁴ Hammond in the sixth edition of his treatise on nervous diseases, quotes 17 American cases, of which 6 were observed by himself.¹⁵ Gowers estimated that in 1879 about 220 cases had been reported, divided up among a much smaller number of families.

¹¹ Ueber Progressiv Muskel Atrophie.

¹² "Ueber Hereditare Nerven Krankheiten," Volkmann's Samml., 171.

¹³ Clinical Lecture on Pseudo-hypertrophic Paralysis, Lond., 1879.

¹⁴ Among Mobius's cases is that related by Pick in the Deutsches Archiv f. klin. Med., Bd. vi., and really a case of progressive muscular atrophy in an adult complicated by lipomatosis in the calf-muscles. Of the other cases, 6 are quoted from the Swedish, 6 are hitherto unpublished, and have been collected by the author from several clinics. There remain cases by Davidsohn, Glasgow Med. Journ., 1872 (3 cases); Berger, Schles. Gesellsch., 1875; Uhde, Arch. f. klin. Chirurg., 1873, Bd. xvi.; Huber, Deutsches Arch. für klin. Med., 1874; Brieger, ibid., 1878, Bd. xxii.; Leyden, Klinik der Ruckenmark. Krank., Bd. ii. S. 529; Schlesinger, Wien. Med. Presse, 1873.

Many other cases have been published since, but without contributing any special information on the disease. Of importance, however, are—Cornil, accompanied by autopsy, Bull. Soc. Méd. des Hôp., 1880; Donkin, followed by recovery, Brit. Med. Journ., 1882, i.; Albutt, Med. Times and Gaz., 1882; Goodridge, Brain, 1882; Barthélemy, France méd., 1880; Suckling, Med. Times and Gaz., 1885; Dowse and Crocker, Lancet, 1881.

¹⁵ These are reported by S. G. Webber, Boston Medical and Surg. Journ., Nov. 17, 1870; Wm. Pepper, Philada. Med. Times, 1871; S. Weir Mitchell, Photographic Review, 1871; C. H. Drake, Philada. Med. Times, 1874; C. T. Poore, New York Med. Journal, 1875; Steele and Kingsley of Missouri (4 cases), Philada. Med. Times, Oct., 1875; George S. Gerhardt (2 cases), Alienist and Neurologist, Jan., 1880.

I have had an opportunity of observing 3 cases of the disease—1 at the Mount Sinai Hospital; 2, brothers, in a private family.