The Etiology of Beri-Beri. Inaugural Address of Session 1901-1902
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stimulate to further effort towards attempting the solution of the many etiological puzzles which, more especially in tropical diseases, still remain unsolved. Among other tropical diseases, the various affections whose leading symptom is intestinal flux, and which are included under the somewhat elastic names of dysentery, sprue, chronic diarrhoea, colitis, entero-colitis, etc., are, perhaps, the more important of the unsolved etiological problems. Although intestinal flux is one of the com-
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Epidemic Dropsy or Beri-Beri in Eastern Bengal *This hardly states the point of view of Lt.-Col. Giles quite fairly. Col. Giles found a vast confusion about diseases in Assam in which dropsy and anæmia were prominent symptoms. He showed clearly that these cases were not what is ordinarily known as beri-beri, and he emphasised the discovery of the share taken by the ankylostoma in producing anæmia. What was then thought to be malaria is now believed to be Leishmian-Donovah infection.—Ed., I. M. G.
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