A case of chronic progressive chorea

Abstract

Patient T., whom I have the honor to present to the Society, suffers from the form of the disease that, according to a typical picture, can be defined as chorea chronica progressiva. The first to emerge from chronic progressive chorea as a separate nosological unit was the American neuropathologist Huntington, in honor of whom chronic chorea was called “Huntington’s chorea” for a long time, in contrast to chorea minor, first described by Sydenham; the latter is a more common form of Witta's dog and carries on itself all the signs of an acute infectious disease.

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