Year: 1941
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: The first published description of the syndrome now known as gargoylism appears to be that given by Hunter (1917), although the late Dr. JohnThomson, of Edinburgh, had in his clinical teaching recognized the condition as a disease entity as early as 1908 (Henderson, 1940).Some authors have adopted the eponym 'Hurler's syndrome,' though this is a misnomer, since Hurler's (1920) paper did not appear until two years after Hunter's.The literature relating to the condition has recently been extensively reviewed in this journal by Hender- son (1940).The following reports add four new cases, and serve further to emphasize the familial nature of the syndrome.Clinical records Case 1. M.B. (fig.1), female, aged four-and-a-half years, a sister of case 2, was admitted to hospital in October, 1933.FAMILY HISTORY.The child is of French-Polish extraction.The other FIG.1.-Showing the two sisters D. B., aged three-and-a-half years, and M. B., four- and-a-half years.
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood
DOI: 10.1136/adc.16.85.71
Authors: J. R. Ross, W. A. Hawke, A. Brown
Institutions: University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2046303865