Gout, Megaloblastic Anæmia and Steatorrhœa

Gout, Steatorrhoea, and Megaloblastic Anaemia.

Examination in Hospital.-He was febrile and pale with a smooth tongue. No splenic enlargement was detected. There were no significant neurological signs. The haemoglobin level was 33 per cent., red blood count 1,360,000/c.mm., colour index 1-27, average red cell diameter 7 8,t, and white blood count 5,800/c.mm. There was marked anisocytosis, poikilocytosis, scanty platelets, and 1 per cent. ret...

Malignant Gout with Tophaceous Small Intestine and Megaloblastic Anaemia.

Gout, like diabetes, is worst in youth. Often impossible to control by uricosuiric drugs, it may cause premature death. Such was the case of a man described by Kersley, Mandel, and Jeffrey (1950). He developed gout at 18 years, became crippled at 21, and died at 24 from bronchopneumonia, associated with a tophus in the atlas vertebra. His brother, who came under our care, also developed gout at...

Anæmia in Practice: Pernicious Anæmia

Thirteen years ago, Drs. G. R. Minot and W. P. Murphy published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing the effect of liver diet in pernicious anaemia. This was a clinical study, but the results were striking enough to attract a considerable amount of attention, not only of clinicians but of laboratory workers as well. The immediate direct result was a revolutionar...

Achlorhydria and Anæmia

Hæmolytic Anæmia

Cases of hemolytic ansemia, other than of 'malarial origin, evoke considerable clinical interest. Two such cases are here recorded; the first seemed to arise in association with ulcerative colitis and the second was possibly a case of congenital acholuric jaundice. Case 1.?Mahmud Ali, male, aged 23 years, was admitted on 27th July, 1939, into the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, with complaints of diarrh...