The Influence of Beri-Beri on the Body Weight
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attempt to discuss the disease, the diagnosis of which must be accepted, though I may add that it was confirmed by Major Grreig, i.M.s. I append below a diary of the more noteworthy features of the patient's imprisonment. His weight on conviction, 114 lbs., and on release, 115 lbs., may be taken as not far from the normal, in spite of the fact that his height was 5' 8f". For, on his admission to this jail in good health, I passed him fit for the hardest labour, viz., Donaldson's oil-mill, and the crime of which he was convicted was rioting. Some four months after conviction he exhibited
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