THE PORPHYRINS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

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Abstract
The authors survey the distr. in nature, the chemistry, the methods for isolation, and the physiology, especially in normal human beings, of the porphyrins; the porphyrias, congenital, acute, and chronic; and the role of porphyrins in febrile conditions, liver disease, diseases of the blood, deficiency diseases, diseases of the skin, mental diseases, and toxic states. The presentation is selective and simple enough to be useful to those unfamiliar with the problems of pyrrol chemistry.