RECONSTRUCTION IN THE ASSAM HILLS

A Note on the Medical Ethnology of Tuberculosis in the Hills and Frontier Tracts of Assam

In attempting to introduce, for the first time, among primitive oriental peoples, a concept of tuberculosis based on scientific truth, the acceptance of which, even in the western world, is little more than fifty years old, it is plainly of interest, and of some importance, to endeavour to ascertain the nature of the beliefs regarding tuberculosis which are actually current among the primitive ...

Traditional use of medicinal plants by the Jaintia tribes in North Cachar Hills district of Assam, northeast India

The study of ethnobotany relating to any tribe is in itself a very intricate or convoluted process. This paper documents the traditional knowledge of medicinal plants that are in use by the indigenous Jaintia tribes residing in few isolated pockets of northeast India. The present study was done through structured questionnaires in consultations with the tribal practitioners and has resulted in ...

Filariasis in the Mikir Hills

Blackwater Fever in the Hills

Acute toxicity of endosulfan and malathion on Chironomus ramosus (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae) from north Cachar hills, Assam, India.

Acute toxicity tests for the pesticides endosulfan and malathion on the larvae of Chironomus ramosus were conducted. Median Lethal Concentration (LC50) values of endosulfan were 0.55 x 10(-2), 0.16 x 10(-2), 0.089 x 10(-2) and 0.036 x 10(-2) ppb respectively, while those for malathion were 0.139 x 10(-2), 0.054 x 10(-2), 0.019 x 10(-2) and 0.0032 x 10(-2) ppb respectively, at 24, 48, 72 and 96 ...