ABSTRACT
In the next years the disease became more and more recognized. In 1900, Campbell and Bramwell could review 60 cases, 26 of which had proved fatal (16). In 1912 Starr (17) analysed 250 already reported cases, 45% of which were fatal ; in 28% an "enlargement" of the thymus was mentioned. The first Dutch case was described by Van Wayenburg in 1901 (18).3
