The Anæmia of Pregnancy *Being a paper read before the Calcutta branch of the British Medical Association on 12th December, 1931.
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Amongst recent papers on the aetiology oi this obscure disease, one may mention those of McSwiney (1927), of Balfour (1927, 1929), the work of Wills and Mehta (1930) and of Wills (1931)?largely relating to dietaries, and of Maitra (1931). This anaemia occurs in Bengal as a distinct disease associated with pregnancy. The usual causes of tropical anaemia are ancylostomiasis and other helminthic infections, malaria, leishmaniasis, dysentery, tuberculosis, syphilis and sprue, all responsible, more or less, for tropical anaemia. The extent to which one or a multiplicity of these diseases are involved in the aetiology of pregnancy anaemia is an important question which will be discussed in detail. There is certainly a large group of cases where the above-mentioned factors are wanting. The condition of pregnancy seems to be
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