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

Date:
1908
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    this original Bedford source. This group, following Browning we shall call the group II, Bedford Group. Irving W. Lyon was born at Bedford, Westchester Count)^ N. Y., in 1840. He lived there until he moved to New York City as a student, and in 1863 was m interne at Bellevue. The cases which he described were seen in Bedford, Westchester County, in Greenwich, Conn., and within a radius of twenty miles from Bedford. His cases are, therefore, of the II Group as well. Dr. George Huntington, his father and grandfather lived in and about Easthampton, Long Island, and his cases were all in old Long Island families. Group I, Long Island or Easthampton Group. There is little ground for doubt that Gorman's group was the III or Wyoming Group, and is the group in which one of Sinkler's families is to be arranged. Another would appear to be arranged as coming from the Bed- ford Group. Group I.—Easthampton Group—Huntington. It is not established that this group is the earliest by any means, but it is a fair assumption, from what is known of the history of Easthampton, that after its settlement from Connecticut in 1649 and natural internal growth it suffered more from emigration than it did from immigration. The original sources of the disease we shall never know. It can only be stated that the afflicted families who lived in Easthampton in the days of the father and grandfather of Huntington were among the earliest of the settlers of the Island. Among the early choeric settlers of the Island we find the names of D. . . . n, H....S, P...e, S...e, O e, V.. S..y and C. . .- t. These have all suffered from intermarriages, and although tradition has it that the D. . . .n family is