776

Alpha heavy chains tested. (5) Burkitt’s lymphoma-A masses.

were

negative

in all

patients

frequent entity in Iraq (20% of cases), commonly presenting as small-intestinal or abdominal primary. We have not seen the histiocytic lymphoma or diffuse histiocytic proliferation described by Isaacson and Wright. Phagocytosis or non-specific esterase activity were not observed. Our results accord with the pathological findings of Henry and Farrer-Brown.’ Further studies are needed to identify the histiocytic character of intestinal lymphomas with malabsorption as described in the U.K. Full details of these where.

histopathological

Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq *Present address:

studies will be described else-

TAHSEEN AL-SALEEM* IBRAHEM M. ZARDAWI

and thus had what most clinicians would regard as depression of moderate or severe intensity. 40 patients were studied in Epsom, and 8 of these were in their first episode of depression, 17 in their second or third attack, and 15 had had three or more previous episodes. There was a small but significant positive correlation between baseline H.R.s. and baseline sideand a small but negative coreffects score (r==0-330; p