a routine introduction to a careful and often minute study of the bones (Table 2). As the result of this myopic vision, enlargement of the heart, for example, which should have been noted many years ago, was, until recently, unobserved--indeed, the heart is but occasionally mentioned in the protocols. TABLE 2 NECROPSY REPORTS OF SCURVY ====================================================================== Number| | | | of | Author |Date| Gross | Microscopic Cases | | | | ------+------------------+----+---------------+----------------------- ADULTS Many |Lind |1772|Brief summaries| 51 |von Himmelstein |1843|Brief summaries| 8 |Hayem |1871|Résumé |Brief résumé. 7 |Lasèque & Legroux |1871|Fairly detailed| 7 |Charpentier |1871|Brief summaries| 13 |Sato & Nambu |1908|Fairly detailed|Fairly detailed. 2 |Urizio |1917|Brief summaries|Brief summaries. 1 |Feigenbaum |1917|Brief summary |Brief summary. 23 |Aschoff & Koch |1919|Very complete |Very complete. INFANTS AND CHILDREN 1 |Smith |1876|Brief report | 3 |Barlow |1883|Fairly detailed|Bones, brief report. 1 |MacKenzie |1883|Brief summary | 1 |Northrup |1892|Brief report | 1 |Cassel |1893|Brief report | 2 |Sutherland |1894|Fairly detailed|Brain and liver, 1 case 1 |Reinert |1895|Very complete |Fairly complete. 1 |Hirschsprung |1896|Summary | 3 |Meyer |1896|Fairly detailed| 1 |Baginsky |1897|Fairly detailed|Brief, bones more in | | | | detail. 1 |Naegeli |1897|Fairly detailed|Bones only. 1 |Manz |1899|Summary | 5 |Schoedel & Nauwerk|1900|Very complete |Very complete. 1 |Jacobsthal |1900|Very complete |Very complete. 1 |Stoos |1903|Fairly complete|Bones only. 1 |Looser |1905|Summary | 1 |Hoffmann |1905|Summary |Bones only. 1 |Stoeltzner |1906|Bone only |Bone only. 22 |Fraenkel |1908|Résumé |Bones only. 1 |Nobécourt et al |1913|Brief report |Bone only. 3 |Ingier |1913|Brief report |Bones, very complete. 1 |Bahrdt & Edelstein|1913|Complete |Bones, brief report. 31 |Erdheim |1918|Brief summaries|Brief résumé. 1 |Epstein |1918|Very detailed | ----------------------------------------------------------------------