Bèri-bèri : its etiology,symptoms, treatment, and pathology, with an appendix, containing a detailed clinical account of 52 cases, and the morbid appearance seen in 19 post-mortem examinations, with characteristic illustrations of the disease, being a thesis submitted for the M.D. degree of the University ofEdinburgh in 1889 / by Arthur J.M. Bentley.

  • Bentley, Arthur J. M.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Bèri-bèri : its etiology,symptoms, treatment, and pathology, with an appendix, containing a detailed clinical account of 52 cases, and the morbid appearance seen in 19 post-mortem examinations, with characteristic illustrations of the disease, being a thesis submitted for the M.D. degree of the University ofEdinburgh in 1889 / by Arthur J.M. Bentley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    charge, aided only by an apothecary and ten native dressers, to whom, however, I am much indebted for their co-operation in collecting, under my supervision, the details of the notes of the cases. Great difficulty was experienced in eliciting the necessary information from patients, who were, with only one exception, Chinese, and were, like myself, speaking a foreign language (Malay) ; but the cases recorded are accurate in so far as the facts are concerned, and I lay them before the Profession with a hope that they may prove useful in clearing up some of the obscure problems in the pathology of Beri-Beri, and perhaps of the nervous system. In the arrangement of my Thesis I have divided the cases into three groups. The first seven are related in great detail, and show the actual conditions and ap- pearances in typical cases of Beri-Beri. I have done this with the object of endeavouring to pourtray as vividly as possible, to those who have not had an opportunity of seeing a case, the chief characteristics of the disease, and from a perusal of which they may judge of its nature and pathology. The second group of nineteen cases are related as indicating the ordinary course of the disease in fatal cases, and the post-mortem appearances seen therein. The third group of forty-two cases are given to signify the usual progress of the disease in such as recover. The subject of treatment I have purposely avoided in their detail. There is nothing in the nature of a specific so far known, so I have con- densed the subject under a separate heading at the end of my Thesis. I have, in some instances, curtailed the notes taken B 2