Nephrosis in Nigerian Children

of oedema and albuminuria in several of his patients. In 1912 Clarke wrote: I believe that the occurrence of oedema in the tropics, of such a nature as to make one think of parenchymatous nephritis, is a reason for making a search for quartan malaria parasites imperative. McFie and Ingram (1917) reported nine cases of the nephrotic syndrome from the Gold Coast; all the patients were under 10 years of age and all had P. malariae in the peripheral...