Abstract
While it is difficult to state with any certainty earliest description of scurvy, the reference of Hippocrates to a large number of men in army who suffered from pains in legs, and gangrene of gums, which was accompanied by loss of teeth, seems sufficiently definite to be identified as this (Hess 1 ). Its occurrence in infants was first recorded by Glisson in 1668, but not until 1862 was there any mention of exophthalmos as a complication, when Moeller 2 reported its presence in a case of acute rickets which, in view of subsequent knowledge, was undoubtedly one of scurvy. Magnus, 3 in 1878, was next to record exophthalmos in infantile scurvy; however, little was known of disease until 1883 when Barlow 4 published his classic paper giving anatomic proof that this disorder of infants showed pathologic changes characteristic of adult scurvy. This
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