South African Medical Journal - Volume 39, Issue 32, August 1965

A brief review of the literature on the recently confirmed human circulation of melanin lends importance to its role in metal metabolism and neurophysiology, which is not readily appreciated from the quantitatively small amount which circulates in Whites.

The diagnosis and aetiology of a contracted first web space is discussed.

This paper records an extremely rare case of ipsilateral traumatic paralysis of the Vth and VIIth cranial nerves.

To sum up, the following changes in the present medical curriculum are proposed.