Megalocytic deficiency anaemia cured by small amounts of fresh endive.

Megalocytic anaemia in childhood is an unusual disease in The Netherlands. Routine examination of the bone marrow of anaemic patients rarely reveals the existence of this type, and is probably due to an adequate number of clinics, which give advice to the majority of the mothers on the infant's diet during the first year of life. The continued functioning of these clinics during the German occupation may explain the absence of an increase of the anaemias during that period. During the last 10 years we have seen only four patients, in whom an exclusive diet of goat's or cow's milk led to the development of dystrophy and megalocytic anaemia at the age of about I year. Attention was drawn to this form of