barbiers

[A different pronunciation of Eng., ., beriberi (q.v.).] According to Drs. Scott and Copland, a paralytic disease, which often arises on the Coromandel coast of India from sleeping in the open air exposed to the land-winds, especially in January, February, and March. There are pain, numbne , and partial paralysis of the extremities, with ocсаsional injury to the voice. It is an acute disease, and different from beriberi (q.v.). (Cyclop. of Pract. Med.) But the writers now mentioned had not personal opportunities of seeing the disease. Dr. Malcolmson of Madras, and Dr. Carter of Bombay, who have had this advantage, consider barbiers the same as beriberi (q.v.). more