Chronic Lead Poisoning in the Printing Presses of Calcutta *A paper read at the meeting of the medical sections of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, held on the 9th March, 1921.

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *Being a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, at the December Meeting, 1909.

or scarlet fever. The extreme rarity of these two fevers in India, and specially in Bengal, might be expected to greatly modify the relative incidence of the various cardiac diseases in tropical as compared with those of temperate climate. An extensive experience of post-mortems at the Calcutta Medical College Hospital fully confirms this surmise, while an analysis of the records from 1873 to t...

The Teething Myth 1A paper read at a Meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on Wednesday, 9th March, 1921.

Teething is a matter which looms largely on the horizon of those who have the care of infants, be it in the nursery at home, in private practice, in hospital, or at the various Welfare Centres which are springing up today. Teething is a subject with a long history. Hippocrates stated that at the approach of dentition itching of the gums, fever, convulsions and diarrhoea occurred, especially in ...

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *Being the continuation of a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, at the December meeting, 1909.

A striking feature of the Calcutta postmortem series is tlie comparatively early period of life at which the great majority of the deaths took place, in spite of the fact that very few children are contained in the series. Thus, although but 2'7 per cent, were under 11 years of age, yet 80 per cent, of the Hindus and 62 per cent, of the Mahomedans were not above 40 years of age, while 52 per ce...

EFFECT OF CHRONIC LEAD POISONING ON ERYTHROCYTE PROTOPORPHYRIN IN RATS

Research has shown that exposure to lead may have adverse effects at different blood lead concentrations. Lead inhibits at least two enzymes that are essential for the formation of heme, and because of the interaction of lead with these enzymes, no iron is inserted into protoporphyrin. Therefore the concentration of protoporphyrin increases in erythrocytes. The concentration of lead was mea...

A Note upon Routine Blood Cultures *Being an abstract of a paper read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the 12th March, 1924.