Epidemic dropsy in Trans Yamuma areas of Delhi and U.P.

Changing Pattern of Epidemic Dropsy in North India

Background:Epidemic dropsy occurs due to ingestion of mustard oil contaminated with oil from Argemone mexicana, leading to edema and tenderness of the abdomen, upper and lower limbs. In this study, clinical profiles of patients presented with epidemic dropsy in north India are described. Methods: This was a prospective study of patients presented with epidemic dropsy to the emergency department...

Treatment of Epidemic Dropsy

areas by La] et al. (1937) and Chopra et al. (1939). There is little to doubt that adulterated mustard oil is primarily responsible for the large outbreaks of epidemic dropsy. More recently S. N. Sarkar (1948) has isolated the toxic alkaloid, sanguinerine, from argemone oil and shown its capillary dilating and other deleterious properties in animals. Bailey, Robinson and Staunton (1950) have la...

Bandwidth Enhancement in Multilayer Microstrip Proximity Coupled Array

ISSN-2277-1956/V1N2-287-293 Bandwidth Enhancement in Multilayer Microstrip Proximity Coupled Array Shubham Gupta , Shilpa Singh 2 GLNA Institute of Technology, Mathura, Electronics & Communication Engineering NH-2, Mathura – Delhi Road, P.O.-Jait, Mathura -281402(U.P.) INDIA Ishwarchand Vidya Sagar Institute of Technology, Computer Science Engineering NH-2, Delhi-Mathura Highway, Akbarpur (U.P....

Epidemic Dropsy in Calcutta

This Memoir is a continuation of that by Major Greig, of the same name, numbered 45. It gives a complete history of the recent outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Calcutta, but does not contain much that is new on that subject. There is a valuable note on the outbreak resembling beri-beri which took place in the Basti Jail in 1910, but we do not learn if the disease was beri-beri or epidemic dropsy....

Further Research on Epidemic Dropsy