For obese patients with type 2 diabetes, surgery may be the best bet.

We have been favoured by the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, with the perusal of papers relating to a remedy which promises to rival Ipecacuanha in its power over acute dysentery. The credit of bringing this remedy to notice belongs to AssistantSurgeon Umrito Lall Deb, attached to the Howrah General Hospital. In December 1876 SurgeonMajor K. Bird, M. D., Civil Surgeon of Howrah, sub...