Beri-Beri in Tamils
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I notice also in the same (May) number of the Indian Medical Gazette some editorial remarks alluding to the suggestion of Ross that the cause might be arsenic. Some in this country, where tin is so plentiful, have thought that metal might be the cause. I think that the insolubility of the ore of tin may exclude that idea. With regard to the suggestion of Ross that it might be arsenic, I think that the frequency of pigmentation and of Herpes Zoster might serve to distinguish arsenical neuritis from beri-beri.
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