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.

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...

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *Read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, June 1912.

diagnosed as such in the wards. Nevertheless, they present some points of interest which are illustrated in the following tables. Two sets of figures have been worked out. Firstly, the recorded deaths from kidney diseases in 4,800 postmortems of the last thirty-seven years up to 1910, and secondly, a more minute analysis of 1,000 recent post-m,ortems during eleven years, most of which have been...

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *(Read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.)

At the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Berlin in 1899, the late Dr A. Crombie, i.m s., submitted a report on the prevalence of the disease in India, in which he asserted that it was quite rarely met with in natives of this country as compared with temperate climates, only three per cent, of the deaths which had been inquired into in one province having been returned as duo to phthisis...

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.

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...