Senior Surgeon, Kashmir Mission Hospital. At the present time the causation of cancer is being so vigorously investigated that at any time a flood of light may he thrown upon the whole subject. Meanwhile, although the origin of many forms of malignant disease is involved in profound obscurity, there are certain types of cancer, which have a sharply defined causation. The kanqri cancer is a case...

A new map and cross sections of the Khula Kangri and Kankar Pünzum-Monlakarchung High Himalayan ranges in the Tibet-Bhutan frontier area are presented from integration of unpublished mapping from the summit section of Khula Kangri and new remote sensing together with previous mapping. The ranges define an orographic bifurcation of the High Himalaya that results in a north-south repetition of th...

cancer ought to be very common in Kashmir, but it is not so. We meet with epithelioma on the thigh and abdomen resulting from constant irritation of live charcoals used by Kashmiris for warming in winter in pots called kangries to which the name Kangri cancer might be given. Besides these cancer in other parts are also seen, and of these cancer in the beast is, I believe, more common than in ot...

Field observations from Gonto La (southern Tibet), a pass through the high Himalaya, reveal a continuous, planar, ~l&N-dipping detachment horizon (the Gonto La detachment). The detachment juxtaposes Tethyan dark slates over a footwall of extensive leucogranite of the Khula Kangri pluton, intruded into an injection complex layer regarded as an early Southern Tibet Detachment System (STDS) horizo...

Epithelioma, arising on skin surfaces, other than the neighbourhood of mucous membrane, is of rather rare occurrence in England. But in Kashmir the commonest seat of epithelioraata is the skin of the thigh and the abdomen. The cause of this is not far to seek. During the severe winters and indeed for a great part of the year, every Kashmiri man, woman or child carries a portable charcoal brazie...