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KwashiorkorReport of Four Cases from Louisiana
V. MEDD HENINGTON, M.D.;
EDWARD CAROE, M.D.;
VINCENT DERBES, M.D.;
BARRETT KENNEDY, M.D.
AMA Arch Derm. 1958;78(2):157-170.
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The chief credit for the description of the disease known as kwashiorkor belongs to Dr. Cicely D. Williams.1* Like many other diseases, it had been described earlier, first, it would appear, by Czerny and Keller, in 1906 in Germany. They observed the condition, which they called Mehlnährschaden, in young children and ascribed it to excessive carbohydrate in the diet. A number of other descriptions followed, notably by Proctor, in 1927, who described a condition in young children manifested by slimy diarrhea, swelling of the feet, and a curious black desquamation of the skin; by Lieurade, in 1932, who observed it in West Africa, and by a number of other observers whose descriptions, however, are not always sufficiently detailed to permit one to say that the condition in question was or was not kwashiorkor. The comprehensive review of the literature by Trowell, Davies, and Dean2 contains a
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Author Affiliations
New Orleans
From the Departments of Dermatology, Louisana State University School of Medicine and Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine, and the Independent Service, Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.
Footnotes
Received for publication July 7, 1957.
Read at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Belleair, Fla., April 12, 1957.
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