FAMILIAL HEREDITARY EDEMA: MILROY'S DISEASE

The occurrence of familial hereditary edema, also known as Milroy's disease, hereditary trophedema and hereditary or congenital elephantiasis, is rare, particularly when a continued familial incidence can be demonstrated. Search of the literature reveals that fewer than fifty families with this hereditary syndrome have been reported. The following case is presented because such reports are rare and because of the studies, manifestations and improvement on treatment. REPORT OF CASE A. W. S., a white man, aged 25, unmarried, a selectee in the United States Army, was admitted to the Station Hospital, Camp Callan, California, Aug. 4, 1941 because of pain, swelling and mottled redness of the right foot. In civilian life he had been a painter. His home was in the Middle West. Since his induction in the army seven weeks prior to entering the hospital, he had been engaged in the usual training and drilling on the camp grounds.