The man was very emaciated and weighed 8 st. 13 lb. He had crepitations on the upper zones of the lungs on both sides, more on the left and there was congestion of the throat. He was placed on ' home sanatorium' regime and a total of 3.2 gm. of myocrysin was given at weekly intervals in accordance with the dosage table Spry in the Indian Medical Gazette, 1939, Vol. LXX ' p. 328. The urine remai...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that children nursed in orphanages loose one month of lineal growth for every three months they spend in the orphanage. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the daily variation of weight- for- length and length-for-age among infants under 24 months of age, living in a temporary public orphanage in Mexico. METHODS Ninety children from 0 to 24 mo...

The aim of the foregoing study was the determination of the occurrence of parvovirus in chicken flocks from different regions of Poland during 2002-2011. The material used for this study originated from chickens showing clinical symptoms of stunting and emaciation. For the quick detection of genetic material of the viruses in field samples, real-time PCR was applied. The conducted study implied...

Righini, who maintains that this substance is superior to other preparations of Iodine in possessing anaesthetic as well as antiseptic and antimiasmatic properties. It does not cause the local irritation and other symptoms which result from other preparations of iodine. The drug was found in the excretions, also in the blood, in saliva, sweat, milk, tears, mucus of nose, menstrual fluid, urine,...

sprue (Chaudhuri and Rai Chaudhuri, 1944), nutritional diarrhoea (Karamchandani, 1944), incomplete sprue (Manson-Bahr, 1940), chronic jejuno-ileal insufficiency (Bennett and Hardwick, 1940), and vitamin B deficiency syndrome allied to sprue (Cook, 1944). Rogers (Rogers and Megaw, 1942) is of the view that unexplained diarrhoea of more than 10 days' duration should be treated as sprue, provided ...

Postmortem examinations were performed on 45 Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) collected during field research on the beaches of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (USA) from 1981 to 1985. Both males and females of all age groups, perinatal through adult, were examined. Frequent findings included parasites, trauma, cardiovascular disease (congenital and acquired), and respiratory infe...

The patient, a Hindu male, aged 42, a workman in the Railway Workshop at Jamalpur, was admitted to the Jamalpur Railway Hospital on 7th December, 1938, for difficulty in swallowing of about two years' duration. There was no history of acidity, indigestion, taking a corrosive or irritant drink, or of having ever suffered from cardiac or respiratory trouble, neither was there any history of syphi...