EIGHT CASES OF BERI-BERI

Beri-Beri

acknowledge that the accepted theories as to the causation of Beri-Beri are incomplete. Clair, as a result of his investigations in Madagascar, comes to the conclusion that " Decorticated rice is used as a principal article of diet, in time of famine is often of bad quality; it tends to ferment in the intestine and gives rise to suppression of the normal secretions and an increase in bacterial ...

Beri-Beri

I have had very large opportunities of studying it while in charge of an entire district bordering on that of Malabar ; I saw upwards of 500 cases there during my stay of 19 months in the Presidency of Madras. While there I heard of the appearance of the disease in Cal' cuttafrom Dr. M. L. Sirkar, and on my return in Januaryj: 1879 I witnessed it here, and had no difficulty in recognizing and i...

Beri-Beri

Beri-beri in immigrant workers--a report of three cases.

Three East Timorese immigrants presented with signs and symptoms of heart failure in early December 1992. One of them also had features of peripheral neuropathy. Another collapsed within 24 hours of admission and attempts at resuscitation failed. The other two showed dramatic response to oral thiamine therapy. An investigation into their dietary history established gross deficiency in fresh veg...

The Cause of Beri-Beri

My attention was first called to this disease in an outbreak of beri-beri at Meiktila Jail in 1808 ; at that time I thought the disease was due to a micrococcus, which I found in between the starch cells in jewary, in the granary of the jail ; I had also found it in pigeon's excreta from the roofs, and thought I had also found it in the blood and in pigeon's blood. But my series of experiments ...