Born in Edinburgh on the 1st February 1821, he was educated at the High School of that city. It was at the University of Edinburgh that he received his medical education. His early youth gave promise of his future ; for his assiduity, his love of work, during this period of his life, were such as to augur well for that future. He graduated in 1841 with first-class honours; his Thesis on " The P...

Introduction IN a previous paper by one of us (Kirwan, 1934) it was pointed out that epidemic dropsy is the only general disease at present known in which glaucoma forms an integral part and hence is the most important clinical lead we have ever had in the pathogenesis of glaucoma. With a view to the elucidation of the aetiology of primary glaucoma in general, this disease provides a vast field...

The Ebers Papyrus provides evidence that the Egyptians used plants containing cardioactive steroids (CASs) at least 3000 years ago. However, it was not until 1785, when William Withering wrote the first systemic account about the effects of the foxglove plant, that the use of CASs was more widely accepted into the Western apothecary. Foxglove, the most common source of plant CAS, was initially ...

Superintendent, Alipore Jail, Sfc., Sfc. The treatment of dropsy by a pure inilk diet lias been prnctised by Indian Icobirajes for ages, and within the last two years a liussiau physician litis made known the treatment in Europe. I commenced the treatment three years ago, and am convinced that it has prolonged the lives of many, whose cases would have been considered hopeless with any other tre...

round of a general practice in the tropics, was soon called to many and curious cases of unexplained disease. A Chinese clerk, suffering from dropsy from head to foot and with a failing heart, consulted him. Thinking the case was one of cardiac disease Manson prescribed cardiac stimulants. The next day the patient was dead. Some years later he came across cases of what was apparently locomotor ...

Case No. 1.?The patient is a lady aged 30. She was anaemic during her pregnancy and gave birth to a child in August 1927. A fortnight after delivery oedema started in the feet and gradually increased, affecting the lower and upper limbs. I was called in to see the case on 14th September, when I noticed extensive dropsy of the body, the face, hands and legs being enormously swollen and tense. Th...