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...Lahut Uzman, Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School, died last Wednesday after a brief illness...
Only 39 years old, Dr. Uzman was one of the country's foremost neurologists. His most important work led to the determination of the cause of Wilson's disease, or hepatolenticular degeneration. This is a genetic desease involving cirrhosis of the liver (progressive destruction of the cells), a smoky brownish ring around the corner of the eye, and a progressive degeneration of part of the brain known as the lenticular nucleus, resulting in tremors and rigidity of the body...
Later, in 1951, while working with Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology at Harvard, Dr. Uzman isolated and described the lipoprotein in Gaucher's disease, an anemia of the spleen that runs in families and is particularly common among Jews...