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REPORT OF A CASE

EDWARD S. MILLS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1938;62(6):1004-1014.

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Thalassanemia is a rare disease in Montreal. The following case is the first and only one reported from the wards of three of the largest hospitals in this city, which in 1937 had an estimated population of 885,000, of which 25,514 were Greeks, Syrians and Italians. The case is of further interest in that the character of the cutaneous pigmentation and the changes in the blood and bone marrow diverged somewhat from those recorded in classic descriptions of the disease.

REPORT OF CASE

The patient, a girl aged 13 months, of Greek parentage, was admitted to the Children's Memorial Hospital on July 13, 1936, because of an infection of the upper respiratory tract and vomiting of one week's duration. The parents stated that the yellowness of the skin had been present since one month after birth. The food had consisted almost entirely of modified cow's milk.

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Author Affiliations
MONTREAL, CANADA

From the Children's Memorial Hospital.

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