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Changing Pattern of Epidemic Dropsy in North India

Background:Epidemic dropsy occurs due to ingestion of mustard oil contaminated with oil from Argemone mexicana, leading to edema and tenderness of the abdomen, upper and lower limbs. In this study, clinical profiles of patients presented with epidemic dropsy in north India are described. Methods: This was a prospective study of patients presented with epidemic dropsy to the emergency department...

Further Research on Epidemic Dropsy

Epidemic Dropsy in Calcutta

This Memoir is a continuation of that by Major Greig, of the same name, numbered 45. It gives a complete history of the recent outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Calcutta, but does not contain much that is new on that subject. There is a valuable note on the outbreak resembling beri-beri which took place in the Basti Jail in 1910, but we do not learn if the disease was beri-beri or epidemic dropsy....

Production of Epidemic Dropsy in Monkeys *This formed part of an article entitled 'Observations on Epidemic Dropsy' read at the 38th session of the Indian Science Congress, Bangalore, January 1951.

Glaucoma and Epidemic Dropsy