At the present day the student of tropical medicine is at no loss for text-books on the subject, rather the danger will soon he that there are too manj\ I he volume at present before us by Dr. Castellani and Dr. Chalmers, of the Ceylon Medical School, is a monument of industry and care. It is a bulky volume of some 1,242 pages, and absolutely cram full of interesting matter from first page to l...

The Ceylon Journal of Science is published by the University Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Full text available. journal also has its own website. a continuation (Biological Sciences) which no longer being as separate journal. history can be found here.From May 2020, indexed in DOAJ.

Panagrellus ceylonensis n. sp. is described from rubber latex in Ceylon. Its long, slender spicules are curved ventrally with a dorsal deflection at two-thirds of their length. The manubrium is thick and hooked, and the shaft is not widened at the shoulder. The terminal bifurcations are wide, with the dorsal one considerably longer and thicker than the ventral. The main ventral element is conti...

Greval (1940) reported that some cases of ' Eosinophilia ' give false positive Wassermann reaction. More recently Menon (1945) and D'Abrera and Stork (1946) reported similar reactions in tropical eosinophilia. It was proposed to record results of Wassermann reaction and Kahn test in all cases of eosinophilia as a part of the investigation into the incidence of false positive serologic reactions...

naire to practically all the teaching institutions India, Burma and Ceylon in order to ^certain what place electro-coagulation of the tonsils has in the practice of their attached hospitals, where young medical men receive their training. The result of the investigation is given below. It has revealed a state of affairs which I consider needs attention. The copy of the questionnaire is given be...

Ceylon Medical Journal The variety of foreign bodies inserted into the bladder defies belief, and includes a wide range of objects [1]. Self-insertion is done usually for eroticism, inquisitiveness or as a consequence of disturbed behaviour and lack of insight (e.g. psychiatric and senile states, under the influence of alcohol). Vesical foreign bodies are much commoner in males probably due to ...