Felty Syndrome

 Augustus Roi Felty (1895–1964) worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

As a young physician, Felty encountered a patient with an unusual combination of:

• chronic arthritis,
• enlarged spleen, and
• marked leukopenia.

Recognizing that this combination was unusual, he searched hospital records and the medical literature and identified four additional cases with similar findings.

Although Felty himself did not originally call the disorder “Felty syndrome,” the eponym became established later.

In 1932, Edward M. Hanrahan Jr. and Sydney R. Miller published a report entitled:

“Effect of Splenectomy in Felty's Syndrome”

Felty Syndrome

Rheumatoid Arthritis + Spleenomegaly + Neutropenia 

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Physics And Artificial Neural Networks

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Blast From The Past: Scientific American

 August 28, 1845: The first issue of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., was printed.

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World Turners Syndrome Day

 1938 – Henry H. Turner

• American endocrinologist Henry Hubert Turner (1892–1970) described a characteristic syndrome in seven young women.
• He noted the combination of:
  • Short stature
  • Sexual infantilism/ovarian dysfunction
  • Webbed neck
  • Cubitus valgus
• The disorder subsequently became known as Turner syndrome.

1959 – The chromosomal cause was discovered

• A major breakthrough came from Charles E. Ford and colleagues.
• Using improved human chromosome techniques, they demonstrated that some women with Turner syndrome had only 45 chromosomes, rather than the normal 46.
• The missing chromosome was identified as an X chromosome, establishing the classic karyotype: 45,X

Turners Syndrome 

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Erythrasma

                                                                            Erythrasma

                                                                        C. minutissimum 

C. minutissimum

Bacteria which produces Porphyrins

C. minutissimum produces porphyrins, particularly coproporphyrin III, which produce the characteristic coral-red to coral-pink fluorescence. This became a valuable clinical method for distinguishing erythrasma from dermatophyte infections.

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International Boxing Day

 

The earliest officially recorded boxing competition was at the 23rd Ancient Olympic Games at Olympia in 688 BCE, when boxing (pygmachia) was introduced as an Olympic event.

The first recorded Olympic boxing champion was: Onomastos (Onomastus) of Smyrna

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Bethlehem Kudumba Unit

 

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