Favism in England--Two More Cases

Favism in England--two More Cases.

Viciafaba (L), the broad bean, contains a potentially toxic substance, the exact nature of which is unknown, capable of producing a haemolytic crisis in a susceptible person. The crisis may be induced by eating the beans raw or, less commonly, cooked, and in some cases by inhalation of the bean pollen. The erythrocytes of susceptible individuals are deficient in the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate d...

Favism.

Favism in London.

Favism is an acute haemolytic anaemia caused by an acquired allergy to a protein of the broad bean (Viciafava). Reports of the disease date from before the fifth century B.C. and in a good review of the literature Luisada (1941) points out that favism used to have a very wide distribution in the Mediterranean basin. It now occurs particularly in the Sardinians, who seem to have retained the mor...

Two More Cases of Stone in a Prolapsed Bladder

A report of two cases of pyknodysostosis in two children

pyknodysostosis is a rare bone disease characterzed with short stature,wide fontaneles,small chin,hyperdensity of bones,erosion of tufts of the disatl phalanges,and narrowing of the mandibular angle. pyknodysostosis is inheritted as an autosomal recessive disease and may be seen in both sexes at any age.the patients have normal life span.short stature and bone fractures are their major problems...