PROTRACTED SUCKLING.

Lethal familial protracted diarrhoea.

24 children with severe protracted diarrhoea from 10 families, in which at least one sibling was affected, are reported. In two families the siblings were from 1st-cousin marriages, in one family both parents had unaffected children from previous marriages, and in another family the mother had a normal daughter from an earlier marriage. The onset of the diarrhoea was on the first day of life in...

Protracted diarrhoea in infancy.

Protracted diarrhoea in infancy

1 of 2 categories according to whether a specific diagnosis was established or not. A diagnosis (category 1) was established in 59 (72 %), the commonest diagnoses being coeliac disease (33 2 %), secondary disaccharide intolerance (12 2%), and cows' milk protein intolerance (11 3 %). Other diagnoses included primary sucrase-isomaltase deficiency, Shwachman's syndrome, ulcerative colitis, ganglio...

Carotinaemia in a suckling.

The mother, aged twenty-five, was referred on account of 'jaundice' unaccompanied by any symptoms of ill health. Her last child was born six months previously and weighed 8 lb. at birth. The baby was breast fed until two months old, when the mother consulted her practitioner because of the onset of 'jaundice' both in herself and her child. She was advised to stop breast feeding and the baby's '...

Banking Panics and Protracted Recessions

This paper develops a dynamic theory of money and banking that explains why banks need to hold an illiquid portfolio to provide socially optimal transaction and liquidity services, opening the door to the possibility of equilibrium banking panics. Following a widespread liquidation of banking assets in the event of a panic, the banking portfolio consistent with the optimal provision of transact...