Clinical Lecture ON DROPSY.

Further Research on Epidemic Dropsy

A Clinical Lecture on Tetanus

the cause being unknown, irritation of I,el^es from injury was thought to be the prime tac ox, but now, owing to more recent discovexxes, we have learnt that the real cause is the"druxn-s ic bacillus which produces a virulent toxin, an this acting on the nervous system causes ie various phenomena classed under the name o Tetanus. This bacillus is found in earth wlucn has been manured with stabl...

Further Research on Epidemic Dropsy

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette StR,?I have read with considerable interest your leading article on epidemic dropsy in the October issue of the Gazette. I wish to draw your attention to one or two points in connection with your reference to our work on the subject. While offering criticism on the deductions made by us from our experiments you make no mention of the fact that albumin w...

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...

Epidemic Dropsy

of articles on ' Epidemic Dropsy '??the burning question of the day?even in the remotest villages. The treatment indicated is tincture ephedra vulgaris for the heart, which is analogous to the action of adrenalin and so will accelerate the heart. What should be done in the following case of epidemic dropsy? (1) Patient, aged 7 years; history of beri-beri? three months. (2) Sudden dilatation of ...