Gold treatment for kala-azar.

Kala-Azar: Diagnosis and Treatment

their spleens by " spleen puncture." Certainly, most of the patients whom we see are sent to us . from the Medical College Hospital Out-patient Dispensary and by local practitioners because they have symptoms which suggest kala-azar. On the other hand, of the patients who are eventually diagnosed kala-azar in the Medical College Hospital, more than half have been admitted not as kala-azar patie...

Treatment of Indian Kala-Azar

The Treatment of Kala-Azar

in a hopeless condition, this nevv (at that tune; treatment, during which the patient steadily improved eventually to walk out a robust in ivi dual, so changed that in some instances ie was not at first recognised by his own people, seeme almost too good to be improved upon. ̂ e\er theless, there zvas considerable room for improve ment. Amongst those who underwent treatmen the death-rate was dec...

Kala Azar

To the Editor, "Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?In the communication from Surgn.-Capt. P. W. O'Gorman in your issue for November regarding hda azar I see no mention of the fact of his having made use of the microscope in his search for anchylostomata. If, instead of straining the motion and examining them microscopically, he examines them microscopically according to the directions given by Sonsi...

Phenamidine in the Treatment of Kala-Azar

case. By clinical cure is meant that after specific treatment the patient became afebrile and remained so, the size of the spleen decreased markedly, the blood picture improved up to the normal level for the population, and there was a distinct gain in weight. As with other diamidines, the temperature came down to normal in most cases after the completion of a course of injections. As in all th...