Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *(Read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.)

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...

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...

Gleanings from the Calcutta Post-Mortem Records *Read before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, June 1912.

diagnosed as such in the wards. Nevertheless, they present some points of interest which are illustrated in the following tables. Two sets of figures have been worked out. Firstly, the recorded deaths from kidney diseases in 4,800 postmortems of the last thirty-seven years up to 1910, and secondly, a more minute analysis of 1,000 recent post-m,ortems during eleven years, most of which have been...

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.

Electro-Cardiology and Some Observations on Indians *A paper read before the Medical Section of Asiatic Society of Bengal on the 20th February, 1928.

This evening I shall lay before you the highly technical subject of electro-cardiology. It was by the invention of the string galvanometer by' W. Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist in 1901, that the study of the electrical variations associated with the activity of the various chambers of the heart was made possible. In Calcutta this subject has been introduced only lately, as the electro-cardiogr...