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 Prevention of Heart Affections in India *Being a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the 26th July, 1932.

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...

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis *Being a paper read at the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

The subject I have chosen for my paper this evening is one that lias of late been prominently before the medical profession. Epidemics of cerebro-spinal meningitis have occurred in New York, in Prussian Silesia, Berlin, Northern Nigeria, Austria, Canada, Dublin, and Northamptonshire. The occurrence of a case at University College Hospital, London, and of another at Liverpool, caused a considera...

Some Remarks on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis among Our Community *Being a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

not only a very common disease, but that there is evidence of its increasing at a rapid rate, as can be testified b}T all practitioners, as well as by the statistics from hospitals. At one time it was believed that its depredations were confined to city life on account of confined and poisonous atmosphere incidental to town life, but any one who has experience of people living in villages, will...

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...