Leprosy in Kashmir

Kashmir

Bengal Medical Service. ( Continued from page 209.) People.?The Kashmiris are a remarkably handsome and physically robust race. Their physique, character form a very marked contrast to the rest of the races of British India. Kashmiris proper may be divided into Mahomedans and the " Pundits," who are the Hindu remainder, who have escaped conversion into Mahomedanism. They are all Brahmans. The M...

Cancer in Kashmir

cancer ought to be very common in Kashmir, but it is not so. We meet with epithelioma on the thigh and abdomen resulting from constant irritation of live charcoals used by Kashmiris for warming in winter in pots called kangries to which the name Kangri cancer might be given. Besides these cancer in other parts are also seen, and of these cancer in the beast is, I believe, more common than in ot...

The Plague in Kashmir

Kashmir possesses a recorded history in Raj Tarangini of all important events which happened in the country for a long time past, but no record of any epidemic disease similar to plague is available. The fact that one of the common abuses used by the Kashmiri is " piyoi toun" or "plague take you " makes one think, however, that the people had previous experience of this dreadful disease. Nawab ...

Relapsing Fever in Kashmir

Septic Gastritis in Kashmir

Pyorrhoea alveolaris is very prevalent in Kashmir, and is the chief cause of pain in the stomach. Another common cause is worms, i.e., the ordinary round worm and tape worm. These, of course, usually affect children and must be carefully excluded before deciding on any line of treatment for abdominal pain in such patients. The former cause is responsible for at least 80 per cent, of the adult p...