Studies on beriberi

Acute Dropsy (Beriberi?.)

finement in which she lives; menstruates regularly; liver and spleen of normal size ; no tenderness on pressure over either organ. The disease began about the middle of October, when she suffered from slight diarrhoea and profuse discharge of urine. I afterwards noticed that her feet and legs began to swell; the swelling came on gradually, and was hardly noticed at first: as it progressed she s...

Beriberi: Etiological and Clinical Considerations

Beriberi was recognised by the Chinese 3000 B.c. Tlhe etiology, however, remained obscure till 1870. In that year Eijkman, working in Java, notedl an epidemic of paralysis among fowls fed on polished rice. He found that this polyneuritis gallinarum could be cured if an extract of rice polishings were added to the diet. That polyneuritis gallinarum corresponded to human beriberi was shown by Fra...

Beriberi heart in Iowa veterans.

Beriberi heart disease does not constitute a rigid syndrome because the severity of cardiac failure, associated leriplleral neuritis, other concomitant signs and syimptomiis, and response to treatment are variable. Five lpatiellts with peripheral neuritis, edema and evidence of cardiac failure are presented. All improved after treatment, and, in two instances, there was marked reduction in card...

Report on an Investigation of Beriberi at Guntur

T. K. RAMAN, m.d., d.t.m. (Bengal). (From the Government Headquarters Hospital, Guntur.) The problem of beriberi has been investigated by different authors in different countries. Our apology for publishing our results is that this district is one of the most affected districts in the Madras Presidency and that we had ample opportunity of investigating more than a hundred cases during the year ...

Observations on the Nature, Causes and Treatment of Beriberi