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  GLEANINGS. 
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  a 
  paper 
  published 
  in 
  1885. 
  Sir 
  Joseph 
  Fayrer, 
  F.R.S., 
  wrote 
  on 
  it, 
  

   identifying 
  one 
  form 
  of 
  it 
  with 
  the 
  barbiers 
  of 
  the 
  earlier 
  European 
  

   travellers, 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Practitioner 
  ' 
  for 
  January, 
  1877. 
  There 
  is 
  much 
  

   about 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Report 
  on 
  Prison 
  Administration 
  in 
  Burma 
  for 
  1878.' 
  

   Dr. 
  Lodewijks 
  published 
  a 
  pamphlet 
  on 
  it 
  in 
  1882, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  St. 
  

   James's 
  Gazette 
  ' 
  of 
  August 
  9th, 
  1885, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  notice 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Wallace 
  

   Tayler's 
  discoveries 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  disease 
  in 
  Japan, 
  where, 
  

   according 
  to 
  Miss 
  Bird, 
  it 
  is 
  known 
  by 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  kakke. 
  

  

  "The 
  disease 
  is 
  endemic 
  in 
  Western 
  India, 
  in 
  the 
  Indian 
  Archi- 
  

   pelago, 
  and 
  throughout 
  the 
  coasts 
  of 
  Further 
  India 
  and 
  Upper 
  India, 
  

   or 
  China 
  and 
  Japan. 
  It 
  is 
  practically 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  labouring 
  classes 
  

   where 
  they 
  are 
  vegetarians. 
  Dr. 
  Wallace 
  Taylor 
  traces 
  it 
  to 
  a 
  micro- 
  

   scopic 
  spore 
  infecting 
  rice, 
  but 
  the 
  salient 
  fact 
  is 
  that 
  it 
  almost 
  

   exclusively 
  attacks 
  those 
  who 
  are 
  engaged 
  in 
  hard 
  labour 
  on 
  insufficient 
  

   nourishment, 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  defined 
  as 
  the 
  scurvy 
  of 
  the 
  tropics. 
  It 
  

   is 
  marked 
  by 
  extreme 
  weakness 
  and 
  frightful 
  dropsical 
  distension 
  of 
  

   the 
  belly, 
  limbs, 
  and 
  face, 
  both 
  symptoms 
  developing 
  so 
  rapidly 
  as 
  to 
  

   terrify 
  alike 
  the 
  sufferer 
  and 
  those 
  attending 
  to 
  him. 
  Hence 
  the 
  name 
  

   beri, 
  meaning 
  'debility.' 
  and 
  the 
  reduplication 
  of 
  it. 
  'beri-beri,' 
  signi- 
  

   fying 
  ' 
  extreme,' 
  ' 
  alarming,' 
  ' 
  fatal 
  ' 
  debility. 
  I 
  had 
  emphatic 
  experi- 
  

   ence 
  of 
  the 
  disease, 
  and 
  I 
  never 
  knew 
  it 
  to 
  attack 
  a 
  woman 
  ; 
  and, 
  so 
  

   far 
  as 
  my 
  experience 
  went, 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  treatment 
  for 
  it 
  but 
  feeding 
  

   up 
  the 
  men 
  labouring 
  in 
  circumstances 
  conducive 
  to 
  its 
  attacks 
  with 
  

   animal 
  food 
  and 
  alcoholic 
  stimulants. 
  

  

  "For 
  further 
  non-contentious 
  particulars 
  I 
  would 
  respectfully 
  

   refer 
  your 
  readers 
  to 
  Sir 
  Henry 
  Yule's 
  ' 
  Hobson 
  Jobson 
  ' 
  (the 
  2nd 
  

   edition 
  by 
  Mr. 
  William 
  Crooke 
  was 
  recently 
  published 
  by 
  Murray), 
  

   under 
  the 
  article 
  'Beri-beri,' 
  to 
  which 
  I 
  myself 
  was 
  a 
  contributor; 
  

   also 
  to 
  the 
  ' 
  Encyclopedia 
  Britannica,' 
  xxxi. 
  541 
  b., 
  and 
  xxvi. 
  222." 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  feather 
  sale 
  at 
  the 
  Commercial 
  Sale 
  Rooms, 
  London, 
  in 
  

   April, 
  there 
  were 
  161 
  packages 
  of 
  Osprey 
  feathers, 
  being 
  all 
  the 
  plumes 
  

   of 
  the 
  various 
  Egrets 
  and 
  small 
  Eastern 
  Herons, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  

   Common 
  Heron. 
  Of 
  Birds 
  of 
  Paradise, 
  from 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  there 
  were 
  

   3255 
  ; 
  of 
  Impeyan 
  Pheasants, 
  from 
  the 
  Himalayas, 
  648 
  ; 
  of 
  Indian 
  

   Rollers 
  (Jays), 
  no 
  fewer 
  than 
  3918, 
  with 
  also 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  East 
  

   India 
  Pigeons' 
  wings, 
  and 
  Pittas, 
  Indian 
  Owls, 
  Parrots, 
  and 
  Jungle- 
  

   Cocks. 
  One 
  firm 
  offered 
  for 
  sale 
  469 
  Chinese 
  Mandarin 
  Ducks. 
  The 
  

   remainder 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  were 
  mostly 
  from 
  America, 
  comprising 
  52,628 
  

   Humming-Birds, 
  and 
  numerous 
  Cardinals, 
  Tanagers, 
  Trogans, 
  Tou- 
  

   cans, 
  Parrots, 
  &c. 
  There 
  were 
  also 
  a 
  large 
  quantity 
  of 
  wing-quills 
  

   from 
  Pelicans, 
  Swans, 
  Geese, 
  Turkeys, 
  and 
  Eagles. 
  

  

  