MORQUIO'S DISEASE A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE WITH A DESCRIPTION OF FOUR CASES BY J. D. WHITESIDE and J. A. CHOLMELEY From St. Richard's Hospital, Chichester, and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore

Morquio's disease has been variously d Brailsford Morquio dystrophy, choi dystrophy, atypical chondrodystrophy. Professor L. Morquio of Montevideo de, essential features of the disease for the firs recognized the condition as a hereditary d] cartilage and bone resulting in dwa generalized skeletal deformity (Morquio, 1 Although Morquio was the first to rec condition as a distinct clinical entity, (1929) also reported a case in this yea particularly the radiographical abn Other undoubted examples of Morquic however, had previously been describ literature (Jaroschy, 1913; Bankart, Langmead, 1914-15; Wheeldon, 192