Protein-free edema in children

Abstract

Two famine years in the Volga region gave mass disease of its population by non-protein edema, and in the overwhelming majority children fell ill, which served as material for the present report. Proteinless edema in children was described by Barthez and Rilliet, Cadet de Guassicont, Filatov and others as a comparatively rare disease, sometimes developing primarily and sometimes during acute infections (scarlatina, measles, typhus, etc.).

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