If Pekelharing lays more weight on the neuritis and Leslie on the cedema, the connection between the two forms of the disease is not invalidated. In a paper recently published in the Practitioner, I have suggested that wet beri-beri is caused by a muscarin-like poison associated with an acid condition of the blood, while dry beri-beri is a neuritis proceeding from the more chronic action of a similar blood change and beginning with symptoms like those produced by artificial muscarin.-I am, etc., Watford.
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