From amaurotic idiocy to biochemically defined lipid storage diseases: the first identification of GM1-Gangliosidosis
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On February 23rd 1936, a boy-child ("Kn") died in an asylum near Munich after years of severe congenital disease, which had profoundly impaired his development leading to inability to walk, talk and see as well as to severe epilepsy. While a diagnosis of "Litt... ...