REMARKS ON BERIBERI, WITH CASES.

Remarks on the Electric Cautery with Cases

or some other small animal is shared, and utider the skin, to a depth of half an inch* two platinum needles are introduced. These electrodes are then connected with the opposite poles of an ordinary Bunseh's battery of 12 elements. Instantly a very fine crepitation is heard, and a froth is formed round the two electrodes where they pierce the skin, by the escape of very small bubbles of gas. At...

Remarks on Pelvic Peritonitis and Pelvic Cellulitis, with Illustrative Cases

Rather more than a year ago there appeared from the pen of a well-known gynaecologist of this city a very able monograph on the two forms of pelvic inflammation whose names head this article; and it cannot have escaped the recollection of the reader that Dr M. Duncan, adopting the nomenclature first proposed by Virchow, has used different terms on his title-page * than those older appellations ...

Four Cases of Immuno-Transfusion with remarks on the Method.

Three Cases of Word-Blindness, with Remarks

Cardiac beriberi: morphological findings in two fatal cases

Cardiovascular beriberi is categorized into two main groups, according to its cause: alcoholic and non-alcoholic (dietary). Cardiovascular beriberi can also be divided into a fulminant form (Shoshin beriberi) and a chronic form. Shoshin beriberi is characterized by hypotension, tachycardia, and lactic acidosis and is mainly encountered in non-alcoholic patients in Asian countries, although it h...