A monograph on Mongolism

Mongolism

Although it is perhaps unfair to single out individual contributions from the 64 presentations, the findings of Hoard on the position of the heme iron with respect to the plane of the porphyrin ring when the iron is in the low and high spin state deserve special mention because they may be of special importance in the mechanism of hemoglobin oxygenation. The report by Nobbs on the absence of an...

A note on mongolism in twins.

It has often been thought that if one member of a pair of twins is a mongol, the other member is always affected if the pair is monozygous, and rarely affected if the pair is dizygous. This view is based on the absence of any report of monozygosity in a discordant pair. However, little evidence is available, since few of the pairs that have been recorded may be accepted unreservedly as monozygo...

A further note on mongolism in twins.

Mongolism in Africans.

It has been generally believed that mongolism is very rare among peoples of negro stock, and some authorities even go so far as to deny its existence among Africans, although conceding a greatly reduced incidence compared to that of white races among negro communities living as minorities in white countries. The absence of any published reports of mongolism in Africans, and the clinical experie...

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