The Indian Medical Year, 1922

Indian Science Congress, 1922

The Medical Research Section of the Indian SnVnre Congress opened its fourth session on Wednesday, the 1st of February 1922. Major J. Cunningham, i.m.S., delivered the presidential address the title of which was " India's debt to Medical Research," and the text of which will be found elsewhere in the current number. After Major Cunningham's address the proceedings on tile first day were as follows

An Epidemiological Study of 663 Cases of Kala-Azar Admitted to the Madras City Hospitals between 1913—1922

An Epidemic of Jaundice in Alipuram Jail, Bellary, from January to July 1931

Alipuram Jail was opened in September 1921 with a population of 3,230 Moplahs, all concerned in the Moplah rebellion. The first cases of jaundice occurred in September 1922, but these were apparently ordinary cases of catarrhal jaundice and there were only 4 cases recorded for the whole year. I have shown in tabular form the number of cases that occurred during each year from the time the jail ...

Notes on a Few Cases of Cholera Treated by Various Methods of Treatment

with it whenever I got opportunity. Again, I saw an interesting column in the December 1922 copy of the Indian Medical Gazette, p. 474, about the use of essential oils in cholera cases. Later on, I also found an interesting article in the June 1923 issue of the Indian Mcdical Gazette, p. 257, by Dr. Tomb which gives a very suitable method of administering these oils. Then again I came across an...

Observations on Epidemic Dropsy Cases Admitted into the Tropical Diseases Hospital from 1922 to 1933

In the present paper, we have attempted an analysis of the cases of epidemic dropsy admitted into the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases from the time of its opening in 1922 to the end of the year 1933. During this period a total of 131 cases of the disease were admitted; of these the largest number, i.e., 39, was admitted in the severe epidemic year of 1926. In 1932 when the epidemic wa...