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IN your issue of November 9, 1893, is a notice of some photographs, by Colonel A. T. Fraser, of two dwarfs, taken in the Kurnool district of the Madras Presidency, near Bellary. From the account given of these dwarfs—the hereditary nature of the deformity, its limitation to the males of the family, the inability to walk, the normal bodily growth up to six years of age—it seems possible, if not probable, that the family is afflicted with the disease known as pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis (Duchenne's paralysis). Any physician could settle the question immediately on seeing one of the subjects in question; and very probably a study of the photographs would be sufficient. I have had cases of this disease in my wards at the General Hospital, sent from Bellary. Perhaps Colonel Fraser would kindly send me a copy of one of the photographs, or show them to another medical officer, and tell us his opinion.
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GRANT, A. Hindoo Dwarfs. Nature 49, 221 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049221b0
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