The puzzle of pink disease

Pink Disease *

physical signs of disease in lung still present, though less marked than on admission. General health improved, but not restored. In the 1930-1 report, Sir St. Clair Thompson states :-"Out of thirteen cases with laryngeal tuberculosis, approximately thirty per cent. were "arrested," while sixty-six per cent. of the remainder were "improved." These figures suggest that with more modern methods o...

Pink Disease

THE first account of this disease was published in 1903 by Selter of Solengin, who called it trophodermatoneurosis, but not until Dr. Swift of Australia described it was it recognised as a clinical entity. Since then numerous descriptions have appeared, including that of Feer, a German paediatrician. Several names are still current, e.g., erythrcedema, acrodynia, dermato-polyneuritis, while in ...

Pink Disease

MUCH has been written in recent years about the cause and origin of Pink Disease (Erythrodema Polyneuritica). It is only within the last twenty years that the condition has been recognised. It was thought to be a nutritional disorder due to lack of vitamin B, a variation of this being that it was due to lack of absorption of vitamin B. Later it was thought to be due to a virus and to have a sli...

Further observations on pink disease.

A review of infantile acrodynia ('pink disease').

Selter (1903, 1927), who first described the syndrome of infantile acrodynia clearly, had by 1927 recognized that the apparently incoherent multitude of functional disturbances could be satisfactorily explained as due to autonomic dysfunction, and used the term vegetative neurosis. A groping towards causation has only been possible by a process of exclusion. The concept of diet deficiency, for ...