FAMINE-DROPSY: OBSERVATIONS ON TWO KINDS OF ŒDEMA.

Œdema and Scabies in a Famine Hospital

was a single case of true beriberi seen, whether inside the hospital or in the outpatients' department. Some cases showed ' dys-sebacia' and phrynoderma as a minor evidence of vitamin B or vitamin A deficiency, but more gross signs of avitaminosis such as cheilosis, glossitis, photophobia with corneal vascularization or pellagra were rare. A few cases, however, did have spongy gums and scattere...

Famine Œdema and Its Treatment with Mercurial Diuretics

Some Observations on the Value of Novasurol in Cardiac Dropsy

Case No. 1.?The patient is a lady aged 30. She was anaemic during her pregnancy and gave birth to a child in August 1927. A fortnight after delivery oedema started in the feet and gradually increased, affecting the lower and upper limbs. I was called in to see the case on 14th September, when I noticed extensive dropsy of the body, the face, hands and legs being enormously swollen and tense. Th...

Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706)

Dr. Saul Jarcho's several papers on the history of hydrothorax, culminating in the present translation of an authoritative eighteenth-entury 'review article', effectively dispel the idea obtainable from some modem reference works that the history of hydrothorax begins with the introduction of auscultation and percussion. Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest was published in Breslau in ...

Two Kinds of Universals and two Kinds of Groups

Philosophers have long debated about two ways of conceiving of universals: as Platonic universals and as Aristotelian universals. Roughly, Aristotelian universals are inherent in the particulars that instantiate them; they can be multiply located (located just where the instances are located), and they exist only if they have at least one instance. Platonic universals, by contrast, are truly ab...