Balantidial Dysentery

A Case of Balantidial Dysentery

thymol, one 10-gra'in powder every hour, preceded and followed by 2 ozs. of magnesium sulphate, for one day. After this the stools were examined daily, and showed balantidia for five days. On the sixth day the thymol treatment was repeated. In the meantime, he was given daily an enema of 2 ozs. of 5 per cent, protargol lotion, and by the mouth a mixture containing iron and quinine citrate, nux ...

Treatment of Balantidial Dysentery with Hydrarg Biniodide

an interval of 12 days the stool was again examined and found to contain numerous highlymotile Balantidium coli but the giardia cysts had all disappeared. The patient was now haying 6 to 8 loose motions daily but his condition was far from satisfactory and I was thoroughly disappointed with the treatment given so far. Following the more recent publication by Shun-Shin (1947) of a series of 10 c...

Amœbic Dysentery

A Comparative Study of Dysentery and Dysentery-like Organisms

The group of dysentery organisms is a large and. varied one. It may be divided, as is well known, into two main sub-groups, the "Shiga-Kruse" and the "mannit-fermenters," which are of equal importance and entirely distinct. If we take decided differences in agglutination, as determined by absorptions, as a criterion of specificity, the latter group includes at least four distinct species with a...

Dysentery and Colitis

This is an ever-recurrent subject of considerable contemporary importance and it is one which, in view of therapeutic advances, calls for a periodic review. As a result of the recent war large numbers of ex-Service personnel who have served in India, Burma and in the Far East are. still suffering from and will continue to exhibit recurring symptoms of these disorders for some time to come. Of t...