The Supposed Influence of Tropical Climate on Menstruation *Read at the Indian Medical Congress, December 1894.
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a large number, we may fairly assume that we get somewhere near the truth." Some years ago, I commenced recording at the Eden Hospital for Women, Calcutta, the personal statement of every woman admitted as to the age at which she commenced to menstruate. During the same period I also made notes of the same fact in a good many cases of patients in my private practice. The period covered by these observations is for about four years up to the
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Unhealthy Tracts in Bengal *Read at the Indian Medical Congress, December 1894.
With the exception, perhaps, of the tract of country lying at the base of the Himalaya Mountains known as the Terai, or the special region of malaria, the most unhealthy part of Bengal is the triangular piece of country which lies in the hollow, which is bounded by the high banks of the Rivers Ganges and Madhimati on the north and east, the elevated laterite soil districts of the Sonthal Pargan...
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Introduction? Of the various branches of Public Health that excite public attention, the subject of the Adulteration of Food-Stuffs is one of the most important, and no doubt possesses the greatest interest. The immense benefit which Hygiene and Public Health has brought on humanity, in preventing the spread and dissemination of various infectious diseases that decimate people by hundreds and t...
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