The Chemistry of Calcium in Tuberculosis *Read at the Scientific Meeting of the Delhi Medical Association on 28th September, 1937.

Persistent Marked Peripheral Eosinophilia due to Tuberculosis: A Case Report

We report a case of a 68-year-old female who was a known case of diabetes mellitus and chronic liver disease and presented with complaints of dry cough and other constitutional symptoms since one month. During initial investigations, the patient was found to have peripheral blood eosinophilia. Upon investigating further,the patient was found to have mediastinal lymphadenopathy and fine-needle a...

Five Years' Experience of Surgery in Exophthalmic Goitre *Paper read at a meeting of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, 28th May, 1930.

or five hours afterwards, or passed into a condition of fatal hyperthyroidism with very high temperature, uncountable pulse, pitiable excitement, and a tremor that shook the bed. Of 23 cases treated surgically before the war at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, one-third died, another third were no better, and only one or two were really symptom-free. Even when, encouraged by the successful ser...

Naso-Septal Tuberculosis Mimicking Dermoid in a 3-Year old Child

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily affects the lungs. Primary tuberculosis of the nose in the pediatric age group is rare. The diagnosis of this common entity in the present case was challenging.   Case Report: We report the case of a 3-year old girl who presented with a painless swelling over the dorsum of the nose for 7 mon...

Biochemical characterization of PE_PGRS61 family protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reveals the binding ability to fibronectin

Objective(s): The periodic binding of protein expressed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv with the host cell receptor molecules i.e. fibronectin (Fn) is gaining significance because of its adhesive properties.  The genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis H37Rv revealed that the proline-glutamic (PE) proteins contain polymorphic GC-rich repetitive sequences (PGRS) which have clinical importance i...

Observations on Prolapse of the Uterus and Its Management in India *Paper read at the clinical meeting of the British Medical Association (Calcutta Branch) on 17th April, 1936.