YOUR TEETH.
A RARE DISEASE. Professor J. Barcroft, Fullerton Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, lecturing before the institution recently, 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 (reports the London Daily Marl). 'The porphyrin was to be found in the teeth, the bones, and the skin. The teeth were turned purple by the disease, and the patient’s skin became so sensitive that out of doors the hands must be gloved and the face covered by a veil. Porphyrin was discovered, in hen’s eggs, but it was not known whether it came from the blood or was something which leaked into the system as blood was being made.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 134, 27 May 1926, Page 2
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128YOUR TEETH. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 134, 27 May 1926, Page 2
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