COLLOID ANTIMONY SULPHIDE INTRAVENOUSLY IN KALA-AZAR, WITH A NOTE ON ANTIMONY OXIDE ORALLY.

Chopra's Antimony Test in a Non-Endemic Kala-Azar Area

During the session of the Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine held at Calcutta in December 1927, Lieut.-Co . B. N. Chopra of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine demonstrated a simple te> 01 diagnosing kala-azar. With a view to find on its efficiency 1 undertook to carry out som* control tests in a non-kala-azar distric ? part of this work was commenced in April 192...

The Treatment of Kala-Azar. By Tartar Emetic Intravenously and Inunctions of Metallic Antimony

even Gasper Yianna's results of its use in dermal leishmaniasis had not then come to hand. Unfortunately, owing to lack of clinical facilities at that time, I had to wait for six months before commencing its use, but I had already given the injections in a number of cases of the Indian form of kala-azar quite independently of any other worker before the report of its successful use in the Medit...

Observations on the Antimony (Urea-Stibamine) Test for Kala-Azar

In the Indian Medical Gazette for June 1927, Chopra, Gupta, and David described a new serum test for kala-azar. These workers observed that when certain organic compounds of antimony were brought in contact with the serum from kala-azar patients in a miniature testtube, a thick flocculent precipitate was formed at the junction of the two; whereas with nonkala-azar sera no such precipitation occ...

A Critical Examination of the Antimony Tests for Kala-Azar

A Preliminary Report on the Treatment of Kala-Azar with Intravenous Injection of Metallic Antimony

of trypanosomiasis by intravenous injection of tartar emetic or other soluble salts of antimony, it has been found that though they quickly free the peripheral blood from trypanosomes, still the parasites remain in the internal organs. So far, therefore, the treatment of trypanosomiasis by means of intravenous injection of soluble salts of antimony has not been a permanent success. In kala-azar...