A patient with megaloblastic anaemia due to nutritional folate deficiency is described. Partial villous atrophy and malabsorption of xylose showed progressive improvement to normal with folic acid therapy.

In 1954 Badenoch described two cases of megaloblastic anaemia which developed in epileptics while under treatment with phenytoin sodium and phenobarbitone, and subsequently I2 further cases have been recorded (Hawkins and Meynell, 1954; Chalmers and Boheimer, I954; Rhind and Varadi, I954; Webster, 1954; Berlyne, Levene and McGlashan, 1955; Ryan and Forshaw, I955; Vaishnava, I955). Six of these ...