The Field for Research in Indian Indigenous Drugs *Being a paper read at the meeting of the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on December, the 13th, 1922.

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *Being a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, at the December Meeting, 1909.

or scarlet fever. The extreme rarity of these two fevers in India, and specially in Bengal, might be expected to greatly modify the relative incidence of the various cardiac diseases in tropical as compared with those of temperate climate. An extensive experience of post-mortems at the Calcutta Medical College Hospital fully confirms this surmise, while an analysis of the records from 1873 to t...

Radium and the Cure of Cancer †Being a paper read at the meeting of the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the 20th September, 1926.

St. Bartholmew's Hospital, and had the privilege of a visit to the Curie Fondation in Paris. I feel, therefore, that my views on the above subject may be of interest to the medical profession in India. The announcement of the discovery of radium was made at the Academie de Sciences in Paris on the 26th December, 1898?about 28 years ago?in a joint paper by M. and Mme. Curie. The first to discove...

A Note upon Routine Blood Cultures *Being an abstract of a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the 12th March, 1924.

The Field for Research in Indian Indigenous Drugs *From materials kindly supplied by Major R. N. Chopra, I.M.S. and Dr. B. N. Ghosh, Department of Pharmacology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, from a paper read at the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

sues to drug solutions is seen to be dependent upon many biological factors : upon electric potential, conditions of solubility and ionisation and the like. In brief, modern pharmacology of to-day has become an exact and exacting science, calling alike upon the biologist, the expert chemist, the physiologist, and the pharmacist to assist in building up a new science of therapy, dependent upon a...

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *Being the continuation of a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, at the December meeting, 1909.

A striking feature of the Calcutta postmortem series is tlie comparatively early period of life at which the great majority of the deaths took place, in spite of the fact that very few children are contained in the series. Thus, although but 2'7 per cent, were under 11 years of age, yet 80 per cent, of the Hindus and 62 per cent, of the Mahomedans were not above 40 years of age, while 52 per ce...