The case here presented is of congenital porphyria occurring in a three-year-old Bantu girl of the Bapedi tribe. This is the second case of this rare type of porphyria recorded in the Bantu of Southern Africa. The patient ...

In this paper those conditions which cause jaundice in early infancy and are of direct interest to the surgeon are considered. While the treatment of this group is essentially surgical, an accurate diagnosis can only he ...

To the epidemiologist malaria in the infant is of two-fold interest. In highly "malarious" areas it is the first attacks, occurring during the early years of life, which build up a relative immunity at the cost of considerable ...

Epilepsy is an extremely common disease, although actual statistics on racial and geographical distribution are virtually unobtainable. Turner in 1907 estimated that the ratio of epilepsy per thousand of the population in ...

The rapid advances in surgery and anaesthetics are making more extensive surgical procedures possible and allowing more “poor risk” patients to be operated on with a reasonable chance of survival. An important advance has ...

Scientists, and medical men are scientists, have been attacked for the poor quality of their writing, and yet, as Professor Kapp (1950) remarked at a meeting of the British Association a few years ago, during the past half ...

Dwarfism, hideous features, characteristic deformities of the skeleton and other abnormalities involving many systems typify this bizarre and rare condition. It is said to have been first recognized by John Thomson, of ...