Chronic Dysentery

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

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...