The Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine Congress

Transactions of the 7th Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine, Vol. 1, December 1927, pp. 865 Plus VII, Neatly Bound

The Seventh Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine

gress of the " F.E.A.T.M." will agree that the Indian Medical Gazette was not guilty of exaggeration during the pre-Congress period when it laid stress upon the importance of the forthcoming meeting to be held in Calcutta. By universal consent the Congress is now regarded as the most valuable symposium on tropical medicine which has ever been held. Those who worked so hard in preparing for the ...

Chopra's Antimony Test in a Non-Endemic Kala-Azar Area

During the session of the Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine held at Calcutta in December 1927, Lieut.-Co . B. N. Chopra of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine demonstrated a simple te> 01 diagnosing kala-azar. With a view to find on its efficiency 1 undertook to carry out som* control tests in a non-kala-azar distric ? part of this work was commenced in April 192...

Association study of four polymorphisms in the interleukin-7 receptor alpha gene with multiple sclerosis in Eastern Iran

Objective(s): Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) with unknown etiology. Various genetics and environmental factors contribute to the pathogenesis of the disease. The interleukin-7 receptor alpha chain (IL-7Ra) was identified as the first non-major histocompatibility complex (non-MHC) MS susceptibility locus. In this study we are tr...

A Comparative Study of the Effect of Climate and of the Seasons on Body Weight in Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Different Countries *Being a paper read at the Medical and Veterinary Section of the Indian Science Congress held at Madras in January, 1929.

In a paper(1) contributed to the Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine in December 1927, at Calcutta, and later in another(2) read before the South Indian Branch of the British Medical Association, it was shown by an analysis of the weight of over 550 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis treated during the five years 1923 to 192/ in the Madras Tuberculosis Hospital, that there...