Sib,?I liavo made it a rule not to discuss matters that have come to my notice during official work, either in professional or in lay papers. Hence, when in your issue for June 1899 (page 211) you criticized certain opinions that you declared had been expressed by me, I thought it both unnecessary and undesirable to enter into discussion in your paper on the subject referred to. That article wa...

T. K. RAMAN, m.d., d.t.m. (Bengal). (From the Government Headquarters Hospital, Guntur.) The problem of beriberi has been investigated by different authors in different countries. Our apology for publishing our results is that this district is one of the most affected districts in the Madras Presidency and that we had ample opportunity of investigating more than a hundred cases during the year ...