Among the diseases that have of late attracted the attention of the official medical authorities of Norway, the so-called Ship Beri-Beri occupies a prominent place. The symptoms of this disease consist, in the great majority of cases, in weakness and a pronounced dropsy of the lower limbs, extending often to other parts of the body. There also exists shortness of breath, and other symptoms of a...

Three-day fever is given chapter, its synonyms being the Chitral Fever of MacCarrison, Sandfly or Phlebotomus Fever; a good summary f;! of the Seven-day Fever of Rogers is given, but no hint is given as to its possible relationship with dengue. The account of dengue is good. Captain Harnett's work on Eosinophilia is referred to, but the description given is necessarily brief and too condensed f...

The main ocular complication of epidemic dropsy is glaucoma of the primary non-inflammatory type, and the eye remains quite white even in cases in which the tension is extremely high. Formerly it was thought that the increased intraocular tension was a late manifestation of the general disease, but in the outbreaks in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935 many cases of this type of glaucoma were seen with ...

after death was Miss M. O . Although of respectable parentage, she became dissolute in her habits, and for many years led a profligate life ; but, having become legally insane, she was placed, in 1856, being then in her thirty-eighth year, in Bethnall House Asylum, London, where she was under my care whilst medical officer in that institution. She was very violent, noisy, and obscene, intractab...

A peculiarity of the epidemic is that it. has attacked the labouring classes also. This .report in fact deals entirely with the factory workers. It was observed that the epidemic had started when there was very little rain in Cawnpore. The first case which came to me was on the 1st July, 1937, and by then, the rainfall was only 2.0 inches and even that was deficient by .50 per cent of the avera...