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under 2 years of age, twenty-four were infants less than a year 
old (one case only 6 days old) . Almost 50 per cent of the chil- 
dren of 5 years or younger died with pulmonary complications. 
The usual period of the disease is from three weeks to two 
months. Five cases had a history of previous or existing cases 
of dysentery in the family. Bacteriological examinations of 
the stools for B. dysenteHx were rather unsatisfactory, negative 
reports being received for many cases clinically dysenteric. 
Five cases were positive for Entamoeba histolytica. Twenty- 
eight cases were heavily infected with ascaris, ten had trichu- 
riasis, and eight had a double infection with these parasites. 
There was one case each of anchylostomiasis, oxyuriasis, and 
blastomycosis, and two having trichomonas. Four cases were 
complicated with paratyphoid, and one was positive for both pa- 
ratyphoid and typhoid infections as shown by blood cultures. 
Treatment is partly symptomatic; purgatives and saline colonic 
irrigations are given also when acute toxaemia is present, and 
intramuscular or intravenous injections of antidysenteric serum 
are administered, when available, to the severe cases. 
A CASE OF THE PSEUDOMENINGITIC FORM OF INFANTILE 
BERIBERI 
By Dr. T. C. Arvisu * 
Pseudomeningitic cases of beriberi in infants have recently 
been reported to this society by Doctor Albert. Another case, 
6 months old, is presented. Symptoms were slight fever, drow- 
siness, vomiting, cyanosis, convulsions, no crying, and ptosis. 
Skiagrams showed an enlarged right heart. Improvement and 
recovery followed treatment with vitamine preparations (tiki- 
tiki extract), which is confirmatory of the diagnosis. 
DEMONSTRATIONS OF SKIAGRAMS OF BERIBERI HEART IN 
CHILDREN 
By Dr. Ricardo Fernandez 
The method of determining the size of the heart from skia- 
grams was described. Plates exhibited demonstrated the hyper- 
trophy in beriberi cases. 
R. B. Gibson, 
Editor of the Proceedings, 
Manila Medical Society. 
