Du. COWIE, in liis Report on tlie Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1884, makes the following observations, which have an interesting reference to the subject discussed ou the fol-
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fever is frequently met with among the very poor of Calcutta, yet not a single case was or ever has been, as far as I records, admitted into can discover from the the hospitals, if the medical writers attribute the complaint to the consumption of diseased grains. It would indeed be a great gain to our present knowledge could we trace out its cause or causes iu this country." "