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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Dayana Davidis, M.D. [2]

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Von Ruess in a 1908 publication entitled Sugar Excretion In Infancy reported on a breast fed infant with hepatomegaly and spleen enlargement, failure to thrive and galactosuria.