EPIDEMIC POLIOENCEPHALITIS: (So-called Epidemic Botulism.)

An Epidemic of So-Called Naga Sore at Unao

Last year, during the. rainy season, many cases of painful ulcer, round in shape, covered with dirty sloughs and undermined edges, were admitted in the District Hospital, Unao. They went on spreading and often several ulcers existed on one leg, but all of them were situated on the legs. All of them came to the hospital after about a fortnight or a month when they had tried all other treatment o...

On the So-Called Epidemic of "Malignant" Purpuric Fever in Ireland, as It Occurred Amongst the Troops

In the present paper, the army medical experience of the disease which has been variously designated Pestis, Malignant Typhus, Cerebro-spinal Typhus, Malignant Purpuric Fever, and so on, is passed in review. For the sake of clearness, it has been deemed better to arrange the facts under two divisions. The first includes a short medical history of the occurrences, arranged in their chronological...

So-called hypertrophic emphysema.

Before discussing the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of this disease, clarification of some of the pertinent terminological definitions may be in order. Hypertrophic emphysema is the most commonly used designation of this disease. Also, it is known under the following names: genuine emphysema, idiopathic emphysema, diffuse vesicular emphysema, obstructive emphysema, dystrophlc emphysema, pul...

Epidemic$ and Pandemic$ are profitable?!

Preventing those so-called stillbirths.

Increased recognition of the disproportionately large contribution of newborn health to global child survival has fuelled efforts to address neonatal mortality in resource-limited settings. Stillbirths have not been as well studied despite the fact that more than 3 million stillbirths occur annually, a disease burden that approaches that of postnatal deaths. The poorest countries have the highe...