British medical journal . triclaboratory under the supervision of Professor FrederickSoddy, Arrangements are also in progress withthe medical institutions in the city for the treatment ofpatients with radium. AUG. 29, 1914J ENGLISH PELLAGRA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD. r ThlBjiitisit jn»7 L yiEDlCXL ^y / ENGLISH rELLAGRA IX EARLY E. BOX, PHySICIAS TO BT. HOSPITAL AXD THE LOSDOSFEV-ER HOSPIIAIi. Qy December 24tb, 1913, a child suspected of being apellagrin was sent to see me at St. Thomass Hospital byDr. C. Stewart Wink from Halstead, Essex.
British medical journal . triclaboratory under the supervision of Professor FrederickSoddy, Arrangements are also in progress withthe medical institutions in the city for the treatment ofpatients with radium. AUG. 29, 1914J ENGLISH PELLAGRA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD. r ThlBjiitisit jn»7 L yiEDlCXL ^y / ENGLISH rELLAGRA IX EARLY E. BOX, PHySICIAS TO BT. HOSPITAL AXD THE LOSDOSFEV-ER HOSPIIAIi. Qy December 24tb, 1913, a child suspected of being apellagrin was sent to see me at St. Thomass Hospital byDr. C. Stewart Wink from Halstead, Essex. parents are strong and henlthy; tliere are uo otherchildren, and there have been no miscarriages. The patient,S. S., is a little girl, who was born at Farsley, Yorlis, on Jnly19th, 1909. She was suckled for one year. In March. 1911, thechild tlien being 1 year and S months old. a rash with butterflydistribution appeared on her face and lasted until September,it lirst the eraptJou was like sunbuiU or erysipelas; later it. faded, and the sliin peeled. The nest spring the rash reappearedand ran a similar course. In February, 1913, the parents re-moved to Halstead in Essex, taking the child with them. The erysipelas appeared again, but was a week or two later in itsonset. When the rasli is present there maybe a slight sorenessof the perineum and some scalding on micturition, hut thesoreness is insignificant and does not last so long as the rash onthe face. The child has never suffered with digestive or boweldisturbance, and maize flour has never formed part of herdietary, whicli appeared suitable for her age. There have beenno convulsions or fainting attacks. When I first saw the patient she was years old. Theparents gave the following additional particulars: She can walk hot not run properly, and cannot get up fromthe floor without hold or struggle. In her bed she is uneasy,constantly tossing about and waking many times in the nightwith a whining cry. She cannot pick up obje
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