Acute pernicious (sho-shin) beri-beri: a report of three cases.

Beri-Beri; Its Etiology, Symptoms, Treatment and Pathology

same disease in Assam. Dr. Bentley shews that the kidneys are not affected in beri-beri, and that albumen is not found in the urine, statements which tally with our own experience. We also speak from observation when we say that the pernicious form of anajmia, produced in some persons by the ravages of Anchylostomum duodcnale, cannot be confounded with beri-beri. Beri-beri seems to be a disease...

A Note on the Pathology of Kala-Azar, or Beri-Beri, of Assam

many years. Its clinical characteristics have been well recognized, and the relation established, which the disease bears to similar conditions in Ceylon, Burmah,the Dutch Colonies, etc., yet its etiology still remains obscure. The term Beri-Beri has been used in many instances to denote two conditions, in one of which the disease consists in peripheral neuritis affecting generally the lower li...

Beri-beri in immigrant workers--a report of three cases.

Three East Timorese immigrants presented with signs and symptoms of heart failure in early December 1992. One of them also had features of peripheral neuropathy. Another collapsed within 24 hours of admission and attempts at resuscitation failed. The other two showed dramatic response to oral thiamine therapy. An investigation into their dietary history established gross deficiency in fresh veg...

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 ...

Clinical Notes on the Treatment of Acute Cardiac Beri-Beri