Khangchiu: the youth dormitory of Liangmai Naga

Naga Sore

Sir,?Recently I read with interest the ' Report on the Occurrence of Naga Sore in Calcutta' by Drs. Panja and Ghosh in your January issue. In my sixteen years' practice, the disease was rarely found here; though it has been always endemic in the hilly parts 30 to 40 miles off from this tea estate. In 1942, some labourers who were sent for road work to the hills near the Burma border returned wi...

Treatment of Naga Sore

Sir,?In their excellent paper on Naga Sore, in the January number of the Indian Medical Gazette, Drs. Panja and Ghosh have mentioned my copped sulphate-phenol solution under the heading ?* treatment. May I draw attention to a modification of my original solution, recommended by James (1938), which I have found superior. It consists in the substitution glycerine for water and the formula is as f...

Treatment of Naga Sore

Allelic Variation and Haplotype Structure of the Dopamine Receptor Gene DRD2 in Naga Tribes of Manipur, India

The present study investigates the extent of genetic affinities and to trace their evolutionary history among the three Naga tribal groups of Manipur. Three DRD2 markers were screened among 200 individuals belonging to different Naga tribal (Rongmei=60, Inpui= 78, and Liangmai=62) groups using three sites (TaqI B, TaqID, and TaqIA) on the dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) gene through allele and hapl...

Naga Sore in Jamnagar

sore has appeared among the class of people (not necessarily poor) who, during a heavy rainy season, walked in mud and worked in marshy localities, barefooted. Forty-five inches of rain, mud and marshy conditions?and Naga sore were not previously known to this place. The same thing happened in Benares last summer, when heavy rainfall flooded the area, resulting in mud and marsh so that Naga sor...