Drugs for dysentery.

Sulpha Drugs in Bacillary Dysentery

It is now generally accepted that the sulphonamide drugs have a beneficial effect in bacillary dysentery. Sulphaguanidine, sulphapyridine, succinyl sulphathiazole, phthalyl sulpliathiazole and sulphanilyl benzamide and even sulphanilamide are being found to be more or less beneficial in dysentery cases. But the question arises of the choice of a drug in acute infections and/or removing the pers...

Comparative Effects of Sulphonamide Drugs in Mild Bacillary Dysentery

(1943) reports a transient hemiplegia in a case of ligature of the common carotid and jugular vein which (owing to the onset of pneumonia) had to be sat up 48 hours after operation. The jugular vein was not tied in any Qf the three cases done at this hospital. Facilities for arterial suture are seldom available in forward hospitals and most war wounds are not suitable for this procedure. The va...

Specific for Dysentery

Amœbic Dysentery

A New Remedy for Dysentery

We have been favoured by the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, with the perusal of papers relating to a remedy which promises to rival Ipecacuanha in its power over acute dysentery. The credit of bringing this remedy to notice belongs to AssistantSurgeon Umrito Lall Deb, attached to the Howrah General Hospital. In December 1876 SurgeonMajor K. Bird, M. D., Civil Surgeon of Howrah, sub...