A case of morquio's disease.

In 1929 Morquio of Montevideo described two children, brother and sister, with curious skeletal deformities. To this he added in 1935 the description of two other children of the same family with similar deformities. Since 1929 reports of nine families have appeared in each of which two or more children have been affected in the same way (Ruggles, 1931 ; Barnett, 1933; Coward and Nemir, 1933 ; Davis and Currier, 1934 ; Valentin, 1930 ; Brown, 1933; Giraud and Bert, 1935 ; Summerfeldt and Brown, 1936). In addition six nonfamilial cases have been reported by Ruggles (1931), Meyer and Brenneman (1932), Sainz de los Terreros (1934), Freeman (1938) and Guerin and Lachapele (1938). The condition has been generally accepted as a disease sui generis and as only thirty cases have been recorded-only six of them non-familial-it has been thought worth while to add a report of another isolated case.