Abstract
Among the numerous conditions that are included under the general term of Banti's disease, there is one group of cases with definite clinical and pathologic characteristics. We refer to that known as the Gaucher type, first described by Gaucher in 1882. Brill and Mandlebaum,1in an exhaustive study, say: The characteristic features of Gaucher's disease are its incidence in childhood, its frequent presence in other members of the family of the same generation, a progressive increase in the size of the spleen, which often reaches colossal dimensions, followed by a similar huge enlargement of the liver, a characteristic brownish-yellow discoloration of the skin, usually restricted to the face, neck and hands, a peculiar yellowish, wedge-shaped thickening of the conjunctiva, commonly seen on both sides of the cornea, and the prolonged and chronic course of the disease, which does not materially disturb the health of the individual. After the disease
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