The Indian Journal of Medical Research. April 1925

Summary

As the seed of this pulse is frequently contaminated in India the first condition in the investigation of the cause of lathyrism was the growth in pure culture of Lathyrus sativus and of the various weeds met with in this crop. [...] The seed of the bagged plants was sown separately seed by seed in October 1922 and by the end of the third season 1923-24 the elementary species were separated from the heterozygotes the minute vegetative and floral characters were determined and a preliminary classification of the types made. [...] In addition to the study of the weeds raised from the thirty samples of mixed khesari the fields of the cultivators in the perg unnah of Barail (a low-lying rice tract in the Tirhut Division of North Bihar in which khesari is widely cultivated and where cases of lathyrism are common) were kept under observation. [...] The negative results yielded by the chemical examination and also by the feeding trials in the case of all three of these weeds taken in conjunction with the fact that none of them were found in all the 30 samples of khesari from the tracts where lathyrism occurs point to the harmlesness of these plants. [...] 1. Lathyrus sativus L. In view of the reputed connection of the consumption of the seeds of Lathyrus sativus with lathyrism it was necessary in the first instance to test carefully the pure seeds with the object of isolating if possible some active principle.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Cover	i-i	The Director General, Indian Medical Service and The Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India	View
Frontmatter	i-x	The Director General, Indian Medical Service and The Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India	View
Rat-Bite Fever with Special Reference to its Aetiologicai Agent. II	609-612	M. J. Parmanand	View
Studies on Lathyrism. 1	613-644	L. A. P. Anderson, Albert Howard, J. L. Simonsen	View
Bacteriological and Laboratory Technique Pathogenic Material Examination	645-ii	W. F. Harvey	View
Observations on the Quantity of Urea Stibamine ‘471’ (Von Heyden) and Stibamine Glucoside Required for the Complete Treatment of a Case of Kala-Azar	679-ii	E. D. W. Greig, S. Kundu	View
Observations on Two Cases of Kala-Azar Resistant to Treatment	689-694	E. D. W. Greig, S. Kundu	View
Observations of Glycosuria and Blood Sugar Content in Kala-Azar	695-700	E. D. W. Greig, S. Kundu	View
Notes on Some Indian Species of the Genus Phlebotomus. Part XI. The Role of Insects of the Genus Phlebotomus as Carriers of Disease with Special Reference to India	701-730	J. A. Sinton	View
Economical Use of Alum in Mechanical Filters	731-734	A. D. Stewart, V. Raju	View
Chemotherapy of Antimonial Compounds in Kala-Azar Infection. Part XIV. Observations on a Series of Cases of Kala-Azar Treated with Urea Stibamine during a Course of 32 Hours to 7 Days	735-740	Upendra Brahmachari, Bibhuty Maity	View
A Note on a Simple Method of Breeding Sandflies	741-ii	R. O. A. Smith	View
A New Endemic Focus of Kala-Azar in Southern India	743-ii	J. Cunningham, S. R. Pundit	View
A Comparative Study of the Environment Associated with Kala-Azar Prevalence in Calcutta	755-i	L. Napier	View
The RÔle of a. Rossii as a ‘carrier’ Of Malaria. ‘The Rossii Problem’	773-782	C. A. Gill	View
On the Commercial Preparation of a Neutral Soft Soap	783-788	A. D. Stewart, Nani Banerjee	View
Notes on Some Indian Species of the Genus Phlebotomus. Part XII. Phlebotomus Argentipes Annandale and Brunetti 1908	789-ii	J. A. Sinton	View
Notes on Some Indian Species of the Genus Phlebotomus. Part XIII. Methods of Collection and Preservation	801-ii	J. A. Sinton	View
The Effect of Formalin on Snake Venom. I. Diminution of Toxicity of Cobra Venom	807-810	C. Martin	View
The ‘Blood Meal’ of Phlebotomus Argentipes Identified by Precipitin Antisera	811-818	R. B. LLoyd, L. E. Napier, R. O. A. Smith	View
Index of Authors	819-826	The Director General, Indian Medical Service and The Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India	View
Index of Subjects	827-829	The Director General, Indian Medical Service and The Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India	View
Backmatter	i-xii	The Director General, Indian Medical Service and The Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India	View

The Indian Journal of Medical Research. April 1925

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