TROPICAL SPRUE
- 22 December 1923
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 81 (25) , 2102-2108
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1923.02650250030008
Abstract
Of forty-five cases of tropical sprue occurring in India, Leonard Rogers1reports a probable cure in only one, and no material improvement in twenty-six. Tropical sprue may be considered, therefore, a very serious nutritional and diarrheal disease. Nearly all the patients seen in the New York district have acquired and developed the disease in some foreign country where sprue abounds. But in the last ten years, many cases have been reported as originating in our Southern states, and a number of cases have developed in persons who had left a sprue district apparently well and had not shown symptoms of the disease until from a few months to many years after residence in a northern region supposedly free from sprue. DeLue2mentions the development of a case near Boston, but his description makes the diagnosis doubtful. One patient developed the disease in New Hampshire, but this patient hadKeywords
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