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On Aug. 13, 1942 Maria Terezinha, a Negro infant 1 month and 12 days old, daughter of a youthful mother, was admitted to my ward of the hospital. The father was apparently healthy, but the mother during the pregnancy had had a positive Wassermann reaction. She had received antisyphilitic treatment, consisting of injections of a bismuth compound and a total of 8.55 Gm. of neoarsphenamine, in the antepartum clinic. Gestation was normal, and the birth occurred at term, but it was delayed and difficult. The child was delivered in white asphyxia and was resuscitated by showed rigidity of the right arm, refused breast feeding and had difficulty in swallowing. The next day, July 2, there was pronounced paresis of the right leg with talipes equinus, and the plantar reflex was abolished. Roentgen examination of the arm revealed no abnormality, and a lumbar puncture showed that the spinal fluid was clear.

If tumors in the nervous system in adults are of great scientific interest, even more interesting are those occurring in children, in whom they are not so frequent. However, the study of tumors of the nervous system is discouraging because of the lack of clarity in the nomenclature, the confusion in the classification of the tumors and considerable doubt as to the treatment to be instigated in any specific case. describing these, we do not know whether they were in adults or in children and whether or not they were located in the breast. Ganglioneuroma of the breast can appear at any age; it is more frequent in women and girls than in men and boys and occurs slightly oftener on the left side than on the right. It may be simple or multiple, and when multiple the growths may be close together or widely Photomicrograph of a section of