Studies on medical geography of beri-beri in Japan, (I)

Beri-Beri

acknowledge that the accepted theories as to the causation of Beri-Beri are incomplete. Clair, as a result of his investigations in Madagascar, comes to the conclusion that " Decorticated rice is used as a principal article of diet, in time of famine is often of bad quality; it tends to ferment in the intestine and gives rise to suppression of the normal secretions and an increase in bacterial ...

Beri-Beri

I have had very large opportunities of studying it while in charge of an entire district bordering on that of Malabar ; I saw upwards of 500 cases there during my stay of 19 months in the Presidency of Madras. While there I heard of the appearance of the disease in Cal' cuttafrom Dr. M. L. Sirkar, and on my return in Januaryj: 1879 I witnessed it here, and had no difficulty in recognizing and i...

Beri-Beri

On Beri-Beri

50, as fully as the means at my disposal would allow.. I possessed, at this time, no library, or means of obtaining any additional knowledge of this affection, and, beyond its name, I could not pretend to any acquaintance with its character. I venture to mention this, in order to describe the impressions this disease made upon me, impressions which, more or less, agree with the published essays...

The Cause of Beri-Beri

My attention was first called to this disease in an outbreak of beri-beri at Meiktila Jail in 1808 ; at that time I thought the disease was due to a micrococcus, which I found in between the starch cells in jewary, in the granary of the jail ; I had also found it in pigeon's excreta from the roofs, and thought I had also found it in the blood and in pigeon's blood. But my series of experiments ...