SOME MEDICAL IMPRESSIONS OF ABYSSINIA

Some Impressions of a New Medical School in Africa

department of Medicine in the Medical College of the University for one academic year. My first misgivings about the organisation I was to join came from the e*tremely vague and unbusinesslike way in which I | ^as called to this task, and from the obvious sense of fuddle which surrounded my appointment both before | arid after arrival. However, travel arrangements went smoothly and I was soon d...

Some Impressions of British Farming

Acute Meningitis, Some Impressions

case of cerebral malaria on the grounds of the patient's residence in the endemic area, the history of previous attacks of malaria and the finding of an enlarged spleen though the parasite cannot be demonstrated in a blood smear. It has happened that in such cases the administration of 5 gr. of quinine intravenously immediately and sometimes repeated after, has resulted in quick improvement in ...

Some Impressions of the 1914 British Pharmacopœia

of a paper brought before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society by the writer on November nth. No attempt has been made to treat the matter in minute detail, and only certain outstanding alterations have been dealt with and criticised, and special reference has been made to those subjects which concern medical practitioners. One of the most striking features of the new work is the introduction...

Some Clinical Impressions of a Plague Epidemic

An outbreak of plague occurred in the town of Saklaspur, Hassan District (Mysore State), in March 1946. The first case was an imported one, not immediately recognized as plague. While suspicion was lurking in our minds that it might be plague, cases of ratfall occurred in the town and splenic smears of such rats were positive for B. testis. This finding and occurrence of other cases of human pl...