“…The literature contains reports of 19 other patients who had received neither postural nor surgical treatment other than dilatations for an oesophageal stricture during the first five years of life (LeWald, 1924;Wright, 1933;Christiansen, 1941;Nadaud, 1942;Huizinga, 1947;Schondel, 1947;Putney, 1948;Barrett, 1950;Pettersson, 1951;Nelson, 1953;Robb, 1954;Franklin and Henderson, 1955;Plarre, 1956). Two patients only were free of symptoms when last seen (Nadaud, 1942;Robb, 1954); 12 had an associated stricture of the oesophagus.…”