The Occurrence of Sickle Cell Anæmia among a Group of Tea Garden Labourers in Upper Assam
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As sickle cell anaemia (African anaemia; nieniscocytic anaemia) is a rare condition in Asia, we hope that a report on the following three active cases, as well as a number of latent cases showing the sickle cell trait, will raise considerable interest in those parts where the incidence of anaemias among the population is high and where hitherto the response to treatment has proved anything but satisfactory.
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Intensive Iron Treatment of Anæmia in a Tea-Garden Labour Force *Rearranged by editor.
Bokpara Tea Estate Hospital, Doomdooma, Upper Assam Practically all anaemic patients are treated as in-patients. On the day of admission oil of chenopodium is given, which is repeated once weekly so long as -the patient is in hospital. The iron treatment (ferri et ammonii citras) is started from the second day and continued until the haemoglobin value of the patient's blood is 60 per cent, or h...
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