31. Compound Tincture of Benzoin in Chronic Dysentery and Mucous Diarrhoea

Tincture of Iodine in Dysentery and Diarrhœa

To the Editor, Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?I have tried tincture of iodine in dysentery and diarrhoea in more than 100 cases and found that excepting a few cases all of them were cured by tincture of iodine administered in ten drops doses three times a day. In order to avoid burning in the throat due to tincture of iodine, I used to add a drachm of glycerin per dose. I had noted that though so...

Transmucosal Delivery of Nicotine in Combination with Tincture of Benzoin Inhibits Apoptosis

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that tincture of benzoin (TOB) facilitates immediate transmucosal nicotine absorption while simultaneously promoting a safe and sustained delivery of the nicotine. METHODS In combination with TOB, nicotine toxicity and diffusion across human mucosal cells were measured using a 3-D human mucosal tissue model. RESULTS N...

Case of Chronic Dysentery, with Remarkable Lesion of Mucous Membrane of Stomach

Mohesii Mondle, a Hindoo of about thirty years of age, spare and anoemic looking, was admitted into the Jail Hospital from the Hajut Ward for dysentery on the 26tn of February, 1868. He had had an attack of this disease about five months before his admission, and had frequently suffered from fever. On admission he was found to be laboring under acute dysentery. He had as many as twenty stools i...

Chronic Bacillary Dysentery

THE investigation of chronic diarrhlea forms an important part of the examination of patients invalided from overseas commands, particularly from the tropics. This involves adequate laboratory examination for intestinal protozoa, flagellates, and dysentery organisms. During the course of the laboratory investigations on seven hundred of such patients with a history of chronic diarrhoea, dysente...

Nitrate of Silver Enema in Chronic Dysentery