Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records—IV. Cirrhosis of the Liver
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per cent, of the subjects, or 7 times as frequently as in Europe, if the extensive Berlin statistics can be taken as a fair sample. This remarkable frequency of cirrhosis of the liver in India?it has been reported to be very common in Lahore by I). W. Sutherland and in Bombay by Gordon Tucker?makes a study of the disease of great interest and importance from several points of view. Firstly, with regard to the role of alcohol in the etiology of the disease, medical opinion is in a somewhat fluid state at
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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...
متن کاملGleanings 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...
متن کاملGleanings 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...
متن کاملGleanings 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...
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دوره 46 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016