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Title: An American text-book of the diseases of children. Including special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Starr, Louis, 1849-1925 Westcott, Thompson S. (Thompson Seiser), 1862-1933
Subjects: Children Pediatrics Disease
Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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overlooked, or misclassed. In this connection I wish torefer to the instructive family tree published by Sanger Brown, and herereproduced by his permission. (Fig. 1). Nonne describes a somewhat similargroup, and the one post-mortem obtained showed only an abnormal smallnessof all the parts of the spinal cord, a deficient development which had not takenon sclerotic degeneration. Occasionally a generation escapes this disease, butatavism is likely to occur. The developmental defect is therefore strongly pro-nounced, and constitutes the background of the picture. It is as if portions ofthe nervous system, especially of the spinal cord, were incapable of maintain-ing their functions in accordance with the demands of growth and active lite,^Chicago Medical Recorder, Feb., 1892. 815 816 AMERICAN TEXT-BO OK OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN. and underwent regression, producing the sclerotic changes to be describedlater. The developmental periods of life are those at which it is most likely to Fig. 1.
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Family Tree of Hereditary Ataxy, reported by Dr. Sanger Brown. ^Thf nunfb^r^toThrwf tf ^1^°?^«^ ^icate Hereditary Ataxy. Squares indicate males, circles females,ibe numbers to the eft refer to the cases in Browns paper: the first number to the right the age at deathor the present age. f indicates deceased. The last number indicates the age at onset appear—the seventh and eighth years of age, the age of pubertv, and at abouttwenty, the age of full physical and sexual strength. But it sometimes is con-genital, and may appear at any period of life. This is clearly shown in the PLATE XVI.

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