Intestinal Polyposis. (Galton Laboratory Memoirs No. 40.)

Scientific Memoirs, No. 42. Leprosy

special attention to it. As soon as Major Rost laid claim to the cultivation of the bacillus, Surgeon-General Lukis took the opportunity of visiting Burma and seeing the work for himself. He was soon convinced of the importance of the work, and Colonel Bannerman of the Bombay Laboratory was called in to examine and report upon this work. The Rost cultures were examined by him and the work of Wi...

Intestinal Polyposis

Scientific Memoirs No. 54. Philaematomyia Insignis

There are two valuable but highly technical descriptions. The first is a study of the sucking apparatus of a small brown fly found throughout the oriental region and of a genus closely allied to Musca. It is a very common blood sucking fly of cattle in Madras. The second study by Capt. Cragg is of the Hcematopota pluvialis, a gadfly or cleg of the family of Tabanidae. It attacks man, cattle or ...

Familial intestinal polyposis.

Familial polyposis is of interest for its own sake as a sort of pathological curiosity and also in relation to the problem of cancer. The term " polyposis " is used to describe a widespread adenomatous proliferation of the intestinal mucous membrane, leading to the formation of multiple adenomata. It should not be applied to intestinal polyps of different histological structure, such as inflamm...

Oral Pigmentation and Intestinal Polyposis

IN 1921 Peutz described a family with intestinal polyposis and spots of melanin pigmentation in and around the mouth. Prior to this, in 1896, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson described two girls with pigmented patches in the oral mucosa and around the mouth. Later, Parkes Weber (1919) reported that one of these twins died of what appeared to be an intussusception. Since 1921 over one hundred cases have ...