XX.—New Asiatic Muridæ

Studies Upon Asiatic Cholera

Everyone who has written upon the subject of cholera has pointed out that however familiar we may be with respect to the characters of the pathogenic organism discovered by Koch in I883, with regard to its pathogenicity the single fact actually known is that the presence of this vibrio in the intestinal mucosa causes the disease. But why do the vibrios undergo modifications in the body? Why do ...

A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera

Pernicious anemia in Asiatic Indians.

By C. R. DAS GUPTA, M.B. D.TJ\i. AND J. B. CHATTERJEA, M.D. P ERNICIOUS ANEMIA (PA) is essentially a disease of the temperate climate, affecting chiefly the w’hite races. Friedlander’ reviewed the racial incidence of the disease and showed that it is rare in Negroes and comparatively rare in the dark-skinned w’hite races such as Italians and Greeks. It is rather uncommon in Jew-s and is very ra...

A Case of Asiatic Cholera, with Remarks

The following table has been most carefully prepared for me from cases under my care in the Native Hospital, by my Assistant, Mokoda Churn Sein, and illustrates, among other matters, the fact I have already referred to regarding the condition of the left side of the heart immediately after death from cholera ; confirming the observations of the late Dr. F awe us as to this cavity of the heart b...

Medical Section of the Asiatic Society

on former Medical Societies and Journals in Calcutta. Beginning with the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta in 1823 which met in the Asiatic Society's rooms and published a series of volumes of Transactions, he traced the history through several short-lived attempts to found medical journals in the first half of the nineteenth century, and through the long series of Indian Annals of Medic...