Diethylcarbamazine Therapy in Tropical Eosinophilia

Tropical Eosinophilia

a search was made for the existence of tropical eosinophilia among the patients of this hospital. It would have been an enormous task if every case with a complaint of chest symptoms was subjected to rr-ray investigations and blood counts, so a plan was hit upon, which was as follows. It is the routine of this hospital to have a thick smear of blood examined for malarial parasites for each pati...

Tropical Eosinophilia

Tropical Eosinophilia

Tropical Eosinophilia

Frimodt-Moller and Barton (1940) described a clinical condition characterized by leukocytosis and eosinophilia and associated with cough, fever, loss of weight and strength, bloodstained sputum or frank haemoptysis and asthma or bronchitis in varying combinations and degrees. These cases gave an x-ray picture of the chest closely resembling that of miliary tuberculosis. The common pattern of si...

Aureomycin in Tropical Eosinophilia