Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Medical College, Calcutta, The dried pulp of the mango (Mangifera Indica) contains such a large amount of Citric Acid as to make this common fruit not at all an inefficient substitute for lime-juice when the latter cannot readily be obtained as an antiscorbutic. A quantitative analysis of three different samples of mango-pulp, which had been dried by exposure t...

stone being found to be of a large size and uncrushable, it was decided to remove it by suprapubic operation. On opening into the bladder the stone was found to be partly encysted in the urethra, and a very considerable portion of it was covered by the prostate. On removal it was found to weigh one ounce six drams and tweny-five grains. The boy made an uneventful recovery and was discharged cur...

March-April 2001 more than 27% of Americans’ beverage consumption. In 1997, Americans spent more than $54 billion to buy 14 billion gallons of soft drinks. Today Americans consume more than 56 gallons per year, or more than one-anda-half 12 ounce cans per day for every man, woman, and child. Dentists are becoming increasingly concerned that over-consumption of soft drinks may result in greater ...

asymptomatic he recalled that in 1942, he choked on a piece of grass held in his mouth while talking. He denied subsequent illness at that time. In the summer of 1945, he recalled picking wild berries in the country. This was followed by an acute gastric upset with chills, fever, nausea and vomiting. He did not recall choking at this time. Pneumonia was diagnosed and treated with penicillin. Tw...

1st July last, page 197), has given a faint idea of the medicinal properties of the oil of ?' Argemone Mexicana"?Linn. Ccalled in Bengal Slie-al Kanta, and in Upper India Karivah). He was not aware that a number of experiments have been made in Oudh, which prove it to be a much more useful oil than for the mere purposes of burning. Some time ago I read in Simmond's '' Commercial Products of the...

Burma.By Roy K. Anderson,, f.r.s.a. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. Rs. 4. Pp. 104. This is a most interesting little book. It is very fully illustrated and it 'breathes of atmosphere ; of chopsticks and fowl chow ; of nights in Chinatown ; of the temple of Heaven and of the sons of Belial,?the latter being the respectable, soi-disant and easy-going merchants who, under the cloak of general m...

A female, aged 20 years, primipara, apparently in good health, 9 months' pregnancy with history of bad constipation, and passing abnormally small quantities of urine, was attacked with eclampsia. The attack began with convulsions of the face and then the extremities, jaws were tightly clenched, and when I saw the patient (on 19th February, 1918, 8-30 A.M.), she was comatose. Two-thirds of a gra...

The uterus, about 1|" above the symphysis pubis; its walls hypertropliied. The endometrium smooth, except over the placental insertion ( on the left side of the body of the uterus ) where the mucous membrane presented a veiy slight velvety appearance. The condition of the uterine cavity was perfectly aseptic and healthy ; the tubes healthy ; the ovaries healthy, and each contained a true corpus...