This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

George Huntington, MD

Arch Neurol. 1967;17(3):332-333.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

And now I wish to draw your attention more particularly to a form of the disease which exists, so far as I know, almost exclusively on the east end of Long Island. It is peculiar in itself and seems to obey certain fixed laws. In the first place, let me remark that chorea, as it is commonly known to the profession, and a description of which I have already given, is of exceedingly rare occurrence there. I do not remember a single instance occurring in my father's practice, and I have often heard him say that it was a rare disease and seldom met with by him.

The hereditary chorea, as I shall call it, is confined to certain and fortunately a few families, and has been transmitted to them, an heirloom from generations away back in the dim past. It is spoken of by those in whose . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Of Pomeroy, Ohio; Essay read before the Meigs and Mason Academy of Medicine at Middleport, Ohio, February 15, 1872

Footnotes
Reprinted from The Medical and Surgical Reporter 26:317-321, 1872.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?