In 1912, Major Whitmore, i.m.s., first described* the pathological anatomy and aetiology of a disease that is met with fairly frequently in Rangoon. It was provisionally termed by him " Morphine Injector's Septica3mia." Since his account appeared it might have been expected that observers in other parts of India and elsewhere would have recorded cases, but the only reference I have come across ...

It is now nearly thirty years since Yillemin published his great work, Etudes sur la Tuberculose, in which he gives an account of his inoculation experiments: often briefly quoted in illustration of the fact that so long ago as 1865 positive evidence had been given of the communicability of this disease. This brief and passing recognition, however, scarcely suffices in acknowledgment of the phi...

Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei are Gram-negative bacteria that cause glanders and melioidosis, respectively. Inhalational infection with either organism can result in severe and rapidly fatal pneumonia. Inoculation by the oral and cutaneous routes can also produce infection. Chronic infection may develop after recovery from acute infection with both agents, and control of inf...