Calomel in Dysentery

Dysentery in Asylums

Amœbic Dysentery in India

bacteriological examinations after death in a few cases, and have usually succeeded in isolating organisms which grow in the depths of a glucose agar culture without the production of any gas bubbles, and in one case, also, obtained a similar culture from the spleen. In other respects these bacilli closely resembled that described by Shiga as the cause of dysentery in Japan ; while Flexuer, in ...

Hedysarum Gangeticum in Dysentery

a day, or every four hours, as the case demands, in doses varying from 30 to 40 grains each time, in adults. It does not produce nausea or any unpleasant sensation on the system. Under its use the motions become feculent, blood and slime disappear, tormina and tenesmus subside, and the patient is gradually restored to health. It is perfectly innocuous, and can be safely given at all ages. In po...

Bacillary Dysentery in Cyprus

The severity of the illness varied from a few loose stools to the passage of bloody fl.uid up to fifty times per day. Other symptoms included fever, nausea, occasional vomiting and abdominal cramps. There was no obvious relationship 'between the severity of the symptoms and the organism isolated. Abdominal tenderness was a common physical sign. Prostration and dehydration were surprisingly infr...

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...