Beri-Beri; Its Etiology, Symptoms, Treatment and Pathology
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same disease in Assam. Dr. Bentley shews that the kidneys are not affected in beri-beri, and that albumen is not found in the urine, statements which tally with our own experience. We also speak from observation when we say that the pernicious form of anajmia, produced in some persons by the ravages of Anchylostomum duodcnale, cannot be confounded with beri-beri. Beri-beri seems to be a disease allied to those protozoic diseases called " malarial," and in this Dr. Bentley agrees with other writers whom he quotes and with Dr. Max Glogner of Samarung, whose paper (Die Stellung der Beri-Beri unter den Infections Krankheiten, Virchow's Archiv. fur Path. Anatomie u. Phys. u. f. Klin. Med., 1893 ; also Translation Indian Medical Gazette, January 1894) he does not appear to have seen. There seem to be two distinct types of beri-beri which muy be called the " wet" and " dry," but in both the prominent features are those which
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