Red Faces Research Articles

Haber's Syndrome or Dowling-Degos Disease?-Reply

In Reply.— Thank you for your interest in the article. Although there are several similarities between the cases diagnosed as Dowling-Degos disease and our cases, especially histologically, I think HS and DDD are different entities. Our patients did not have reticulate pigmented anomalies of the flexures but did have black warts and red faces. Haber's syndrome may be a disease of hereditary seborrheic keratoses. Rosacea, which is not found in DDD, is a striking feature of HS. One of our patients had used adrenal steroid ointments frequently, but the other two patients had not. However, there are indeed some similarities between HS and DDD that should be studied further. Another condition that should be differentiated from HS is familial, eruptive milia. The patient described by Heard et al 1 (not the first to be described) had multiple nonpigmented papules ranging from 1 to 3 mm in diameter on the face,

Red faces (and hot tempers) on 2,4,5,-T.

Red faces (and hot tempers) on 2,4,5,-T.

Red faces in Tavistock Square

Red faces in Tavistock Square

White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, and Religious Faith as Causes of Suicide Among New Slaves

African slaves composed the largest immigrant group arriving in the New World prior to the American Revolution, and the largest non-English migration to the North American Continent during the same years.' These immigrants came unwillingly to American shores; and the cruel hardships they faced during their removal from Africa to a New World bondage were part of the high human price paid for the conquest of the Americas. Had African newcomers been Christian, their's would have been a celebrated martyrdom, especially the sacrifice of those who chose death over forced submission to an alien faith and culture. But because they were only heathen Africans, recognition of their martyrdom was withheld. The horrors of forced migration into American slavery were increased the miasma of misunderstanding and myth which shrouded the ultimate destiny of the slave emigrants. From the seventeenth century onward the folk beliefs of West and Central Africa from the Senegambia to the Congo explained the insatiable appetite of the Atlantic slave trade in terms of white cannibalism.2 African captives typically found the European world of the slavers strange and frightening. When Olaudah Equiano, an Ibo boy shipped to the New World in 1756 at the age of eleven, first boarded a slaver and saw downcast blacks chained near a copper pot in which coastal vessels kept fires burning as a prophylactic measure, he fainted in horror and anguish. Revived, he asked the local slave merchants aiding in the loading if he were not to be eaten by white men with horrible looks, red faces, and loose hair. Although reassured that he was not, he remained convinced along with the rest of the cargo that ultimately he would be eaten these ugly men.3 Many slaves believed death in Africa was preferable to the unspeakable horror that awaited across the Atlantic. Samuel Ajayi Crowther recalled a typical reaction in relating how his fear of being sold to the Portuguese drove him into shock, depression and, ultimately, thoughts of suicide.

COLOR OF THE FACE IN DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONS ON A GROUP OF PATIENTS IN JERUSALEM.

1. A higher incidence of Latent or manifest diabetes mellitus has been found in Jerusalem in patients with red faces than among those without red faces. The incidence of diabetes was highest among patients with markedly red faces. 2. Most diabetic patients showed facial redness. In half of them a marked degree of redness was present. 3. Redness of the face appeared to have a familial incidence. 4. Diabetes, red faces, and reddish or red hair were more commonly encountered among patients of Ashkenazi than of Oriental or Sephardi origin. 5. A deliberate search for diabetes in this group of 150 patients revealed thirty-nine new cases of diabetes, mainly latent. All but four of these newly discovered diabetics had red faces of varying degree. 6. The finding of a red face on clinical examination seems to justify a careful search for diabetes in the patient and his family. 7. Diabetic microangiopalhy, increased sensitivity to actinic radiation, dehydration and other possible causes of facial redness in diabetes have been discussed.