ONE of the most serious handicaps to poultry raising in the Southwestern States is the fowl tick, or blue bug {Argm rmneahis). It is a persistent bloodsucker, and its presence in a poultry house in considerable numbers results in weakened stock, fewer eggs, and emaciation and not infrequently death of some of the fowls. A form of paralysis associated with this tick also afl'ects many fowls, som...

Case history.?A Hindu male, aged 35 years, was admitted into Krishnarajendra Hospital on 10th September, 1942. His complaint was that he was suffering for the past six months from cough, pain in the chest, irregular attacks of fever, foetid expectoration and progressive emaciation. For the past fortnight the right upper extremity had progressively increased in size. Of late he was feeling breat...

On 31st August 1897, a woman, Puma by name, of the barber caste, between 30 and 40 years of age, came to me on account of blindness. She was in a state of extreme emaciation, and complained of excessive thirst. As she was suffering from the scarcity. prevailing in the district, and was in a condition of destitution, she was unable to say whether her hunger was more than could be accounted for b...

A 1-yr-old male leopard (Panthera pardus) presented for intermittent anorexia, emaciation, and generalized muscle wasting. Plain radiographs, ultrasonography, and esophageal endoscopy led to a diagnosis of diaphragmatic eventration with probable concurrent hiatal hernia. An exploratory laparotomy confirmed both diagnoses, and surgical repair and stabilization were performed. After surgery, the ...

We report a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who developed progressive emaciation and postprandial abdominal pain with a 27-year history of corticosteroid treatment. The patient was diagnosed as having intestinal angina based on computed tomography that showed severe stenosis of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) in addition to complete occlusion of the celiac and inferior mese...

Raju, Hindu male aged 70, was admitted to hospital on the afternoon of the 19th April, 1922, suffering from extreme emaciation, inability to take food, and an offensive and purulent discharge from the mouth. The patient had suffered from this trouble for 12 years and had been in the habit of having the swelling punctured by a barber when it increased in size. Twelve days prior to his admission ...

Within the last few years a good deal has been heard of kala-azar or black fever of the Lower Assam districts. The opinion among most if not all the medical officers who had studied the disease was that it was ' a marsh ague intensified through chronic lapses into a blood taint which passes into anaemia and congestion of organs.' The disease is of a lingering type and is accompanied with emacia...