Editorial Notes

a difficult but fascinating branch of medicine we shall serve his interests as well as our readers'. Much of the value of such a collection consists in the contrast of one type against another. Compare, for example, the two jolly little fellows with Brailsford dwarfism, swollen joints but normal intelligence, and the three miserable, depressed and mentally retarded children suffering from gargoylism. Progeria is a rare and weird condition, but it appears (of all places) in the Bab Ballads ! There it is associated with sexual precocity, not observed in the other cases reported : " He early determined to marry and wive . . . Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive His health didn't thrive? No longer alive He died an enfeebled old dotard at five !"