ACUTE EPIDEMIC DYSENTERY.

A Small Epidemic of Flexner (?) Dysentery

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In some villages near Mandya in Mysore District, a few cases of dysentery were reported and the health officer in charge of the rural unit sent seven motions from patients suffering from the attack, and two water samples from wells that were reported to have caused dysentery after use, for bacteriological analysis. A relevant portion of this lette...

Kurchicine in Acute Dysentery

Babu Jogornath Sen, G.M.C.B., a leading practitioner in the town of Calcutta, has given a fair trial to the efficacy of Liq. Kurchicine in various forms of dysentery, and recorded the following rough notes, which ho has kindly communicated to me :? " In my private practice I have found kurchicine a valuable medicine in all stages of dysentery,?both acute and chronic, and also in periodic fevers...

Treatment of an Epidemic of Acute Bacillary Dysentery with M&B 693

Forced Feeding in Acute Dysentery

great importance. Realizing all this and being entitled to reasonable satisfaction with their results, general practitioners rarely bother to get a specimen investigated. They hardly ever delay treatment until a laboratory report is forthcoming, though in a strictly clinical sense this is what they might be expected to do. Before the advent of the siulpjionamides majority of the cases was treat...

Aconite Treatment in Acute Dysentery

Dear Sir,?Since Dr. Beafcson, the present Civil Surgeon of Bhagalpore, advise 1 me to use Tinct. Aconite in acute dysentery, I tried it in several cases and met with marvellous results. After administering it for 21 hours according to the mode he instructed me, i. e., one minim every half hour for 8 or 10 hours, and then one minim every hour, I found the blood almost disappeared from the stools...