St. Albans City Hospital

Correspondence between paediatricians and pathologists at St. Albans City Hospital and Penrose, consisting of 7 letters, regarding a particular case of an infant born with cebocephaly. The patient died in September 1962, and correspondence refers to the post mortem examination and chromosome analysis at the Galton Laboratory. Encloses a copy of the post mortem report conducted by J I Pugh, a dermatoglyphic note on the infant's palm dermal ridge lines, a typescript chromosome analysis report from the Galton Laboratory, photographic prints of the patient's brain, and an offprint of "Zur Äetiologie der Arhinencephalie" by Hans Grebe in Der Erbarzt, volume 12, issue 9/12, September-December 1944.

Jul 1962 - Nov 1962

20 folios

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