Neurographs : a series of neurological studies, cases, and notes / Editor William Browning.

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1908
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    cases reported in this country are of common ancestry. Easthampton, Long Island, according to King, was set- tled in 1649, and choreic families have lived there ever since. Several emigrations have taken place from there; one of them to Delaware County, New York, and it was from Franklin, Delaware County that Dr. Water's original observations were made. Charles B. Gorman in his thesis, quoted by Dunglison, speaks of the affection existing in Luzerne County, Pa., which is less than 75 miles from Delaware County, New York. One of my cases was from Wyoming County, Pa., which adjoins Luzerne. This is the thesis which has attracted my attention, and the evidence which I here present, although as yet but fragmentary, I hope may be a precursor of a fuller report, and may serve as a stimulus to others to trace back the genealogy of the family trees, so that some day a complete history of this disease may be presented from this standpoint. Such a study would prove of invaluable assistance as offering evidence bearing on the question of heredity some remarks concerning which I trust may be justified by even the scanty outline which I here present. As will be noted in the Biographical Sketches offered by Dr. Browning, Dr. Waters was born in Franklin, New York. His medical activities were not carried out at Franklin, and it is probable, as Dr. Browning has pointed out, that Waters referred to Westchester County as the southeastern part of the State. Further it may be pointed out, in addition to the philological argument that Browning adduces, that Water's parents came from Hebron, Conn., and his trips from Franklin to Hebron, through North Salem and Bedford may have led him in this region where much Huntington chorea existed in Lj'on's day, and exists even more at the present, from