The William Sydney Thayer and Susan Read Thayer lectures in clinical medicine : Lecture 1, The hereditary factor in some diseases of the haemopoietic system. Lecture 2, Some diseases in the Jewish race / by Sir Humphry Rolleston Bart., K.C.B., M.D., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge.

  • Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944
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[1928?]
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Credit: The William Sydney Thayer and Susan Read Thayer lectures in clinical medicine : Lecture 1, The hereditary factor in some diseases of the haemopoietic system. Lecture 2, Some diseases in the Jewish race / by Sir Humphry Rolleston Bart., K.C.B., M.D., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Frohlich’s syndrome and retinitis pigmentosa; Weber reported a case in a Jew aged thirty-five years; (2) with incomplete Recklinghausen’s disease, thus showing a widespread abnormality in the nervous system. Between the infantile type of amaurotic family idiocy, which has a predominating racial incidence, and these aberrant forms of retinitis pigmentosa there are, through the juvenile groups of macular and cerebral degeneration, a number of transitional forms of disease which make up a chain, the links of which are less early in onset, less serious, and not prominently racial in incidence. It may be pointed out that this suggests a common factor which, though not confined to the Jewish stock, is much more powerful in them than in gentiles. The same relation existing between the infantile and juvenile types of amaurotic family idiocy is discernible between Niemann’s disease (lipoid-celled spleno-hepatomegaly) and Gaucher’s splenomegaly. THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS Synonyms: Buerger's disease: non-syphilitic arteritis obliterans of Hebrews (Weber); die Hebraische Krankheit; glycophilia (Willy Meyer) The name thrombo-angiitis obliterans was coined in 1908 by Leo Buerger of the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York; endarteritis obliter¬ ans had of course been described previously, but not as a special racial disease. In England Parkes Weber described early in 1908 “arteritis obliterans of the lower extremity with intermittent claudication (angina cruris)” and has often discussed the subject since. In 1924 Buerger collected 500 cases, all but 4 in Jews, and only 3 in females. Jablons found 20 gentiles among his 200 cases, and quotes Idelsohn’s 40 per cent of gentiles among 226 cases: among 300 cases at the Mayo clinic just over 50 per cent were Hebrews (Allen). It is cer¬ tainly becoming more widely recognized and, it is thought, actually more frequent. The condition is characterized by its incidence almost only in men and earlier in life than senile gangrene, by absence of evidence of syphilis, by occurrence of intermittent claudication, redness or cya¬ nosis of the feet when in a dependent position, thus resembling eryth- romelalgia, patches of wandering superficial thrombo-phlebitis in a certain number of cases (35 per cent Allen and Brown), and gangrene