BERIBERI.
■ - ■■ ' •; •/.' ASIATIC SEAMEN ATTACKED,. ' 'V BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT, (Rec. Jan. 9, 9.18 p.m.) '.-■■.• Sydney, January 9. Tho steamer Borderer, from Vancouver to South Africa; has'put into Sydney with fivo Chinese members of tho crew suffering from beriberi. A sixth succumbed. •Beriberi is described : as a disease characterised by ancemia, muscular and sensory paralysis, . more or less pain, general dropsical symptoms, etc.lt may be acute, or subacute, or chronic. It does not; appear to be contagious, although it .infests localities. Beriberi occurs in India and adjacent countries, and is frequent in Japan, ■ under the name of knkke..
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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98BERIBERI. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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