On Reinfection in Phthisis

On Scrofula, Tuberculosis, and Phthisis in India

vyas, probably, due to the imperfect utilisation of Laennec's system of auscultation and physical diagnosis; the extreme difficulty, in former times, of obtainingpost-mortem examinations, in native cases ; their frequent latency and liability to be masked by bowel complaints. In 1844 and 1845, Dr. ^ ? A. C.reen proved the existence of phthisis among the natives of Ilowrah and Midnapore. In 1845...

Laryngeal Phthisis

? graph has been brought out, enlarged and ?rewritten, by Mr. Harold Bar well, owing to Mr. -Lake having given up the practice of Laryngology to pursue that of Otologj'. It is based upon an experience of G50 cases of the disease observed principally at the Mount Vernon Hospital for consumption in London. The etiology, patholog}7, symptoms, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the ...

Phthisis in Famine

In 459 consecutive autopsies made during the Madras Famine of 1877-78, tubercular deposit was found in one or both lungs in thirty men, 13*3 per cent., twenty women, 12*8 per cent., and in one child. The deposit was present in both lungs in eighteen of the men aud in sixteen of the women, was confined to the right lung in three of the men, the child, and three of the women, and to the left lung...

Ophthalmic Reaction in Early Phthisis

Sepoy Man Bahadur, No. 726/8, of the Myitkyina Military Police Battalion, has been under in}' observation for nca.ly 18 months, and from the very beginning tubercle of the lung has been suspected. In the early part of 1908 when he first came under observation he had no physical signs of phthisis; lie was, however, losing flesh, had a slight cough and is said to have spat some blood. His sputum ...

An Epidemic of Phthisis