Case of peritoneal dropsy

A Case of Ovarian Dropsy

'Novasurol' in a Case of Hepatic Dropsy

Present history?In April 1930, having become alarmed and obtaining no relief from local treatment at Dakor, the patient came to Benares. Here he consulted some local vaids, hakeems and doctors, and he was told that he would not live for more than ten days. Finally, I too was consulted and advised Novasurol injections. At the time of my examination the heart was already markedly affected. The ab...

On a Case of Ovarian Dropsy

after death was Miss M. O . Although of respectable parentage, she became dissolute in her habits, and for many years led a profligate life ; but, having become legally insane, she was placed, in 1856, being then in her thirty-eighth year, in Bethnall House Asylum, London, where she was under my care whilst medical officer in that institution. She was very violent, noisy, and obscene, intractab...

A case report of peritoneal tuberculosis with multiple miliary peritoneal deposits mimicking advanced ovarian carcinoma

Background: Peritoneal tuberculosis accounts 1-2% of all forms of tuberculosis. Peritoneal tuberculosis is an important differential diagnosis for ovarian cancer in women with ascites, adnexal mass and elevated cancer antigen 125 (CA125) levels. We report a case of a 32- year -old woman with multiple miliary peritoneal deposits mimicking advanced ovarian carcinoma. Case Presentation: A 32-ye...

Epidemic Dropsy

It would prolong tliia already lengthy paper unduly were I to enter on a discussion of that protean malady, beri-beri, with the literature of which I have pretty fully acquainted myself, or to refer to other epidemics of dropsy which have been described as prevailing in Brazil and elsewhere. I beliSve that the term beri-beri has been applied to a number of different diseased conditions, and tha...