TEETH TURNED PURPLE.
LONDON, February 27. Professor .7. Bareroft, Fullerian Pro fessor of Physiology, Royal Institution. lecturing before the institution last night, said there were at present at least three cases in England of a very rare disease in which the patients suffered from the pigment porphyrin in the human system. The porphyrin was to lie found in the teeth, the hones and the skin. The teeth were turned purple by the disease and the patient’s skin became so sensitive that out of doors his hands must he gloved and his face covered by a veil. Porphyrin was discovered in hen’s eggs, btft it was not known whether it canie from the blood or was something which leaked into the system as blood was being made.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1926, Page 4
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126TEETH TURNED PURPLE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1926, Page 4
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