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ELIAS SELINGER, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1930;4(1):32-36.

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Careful search of the literature revealed only twenty-eight cases of this rare and interesting disease. The case reported is the twenty-ninth of the series, and as far as could be learned is the first to be described in the American literature.

REPORT OF CASE

J. O., a well developed white boy, aged 16, came to the eye department of Rush Medical College on Dec. 12, 1929, complaining of right-sided ptosis, inability to see with the right eye and right divergence, symptoms which had been present since birth. The patient had two older brothers and a younger one, all apparently well. His mother had been an inmate of an insane asylum since the birth of his younger brother, twelve years previously.

General physical examination revealed a 4+ Wassermann reaction of the spinal fluid, a negative Wassermann reaction of the blood and Hutchinson's teeth. The results of the neurologic examination were . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 20, 1930.

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