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JOHN A. FOOTE, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1927;33(2):294-295.

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In 1902, Cautley and Dent stated that the earliest record of congenital pyloric stenosis was that of a case report dated 1841.¹

William Osler took exception to this statement,² and, in 1903, set forth the claims of Hezekiah Beardsley,³ whose monograph, "A Case of Scirrus in the Pylorus of an Infant," he had found in the course of a study that he was making in early American medical literature.

In 1918, I reported that a true case of this disease, occurring at the third week of life, had been described by George Armstrong, in 1777, antedating the report of Beardsley by eleven years.⁴

It happened that, in 1917, while reading some eighteenth century English texts on pediatrics, through the kindness of Lieut. Col. Fielding Garrison, in the Surgeon General's Library, I came across two works by George Armstrong, a London physician, who lived in the latter . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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WASHINGTON, D. C.

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