IPECACUANHA IN DYSENTERY.

Ipecacuanha in Dysentery

opportunity. I went to Hong-Kong and was accidentally asked to see a brother officer's patient, a soldier, dying of dysentery. He was an invalid. I prescribed ipecacuanha one dose. Ife had so good a night's rest that my friend requested I would take charge of the case. He got, comparatively speaking, well and went to England ; but this man was not treated by lurgc doses, nor have I ever found l...

Action of Ipecacuanha in Dysentery

the rationale of it. Ipecacuanha ha3 since the last few years been remarkably successful in the treatment of dysentery, and high eulogiums have been passed upon it from different quarters. Many have tried, more or less successfully, to explain its modus operandi. Dr. Hutchinson, in the last number of the Gazette, gives out his view of the action of ipecacuanha in dysentery. He believes that the...

How Does Ipecacuanha Cure Dysentery?

By A. E. Hail, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Artillery. This i3 a question which has been often asked, but which does not appear to have been answered satisfactorily. Waring, in his " Manual of Practical Therapeutics," page 296, tells us that " ipecacuanha possesses considerable sedative powers, as is shown by its influence in hajmorrliagic diseases ;" and at page 298?" Its beneficial operation is p...

Cases of Dysentery Treated with Ipecacuanha Sine Emetinâ (Merck)

Sixty Cases of Amœbic Dysentery Illustrating the Treatment by Ipecacuanha and Emetine Respectively

X have already published details of several cases of amoebic dysentery, hepatitis and liver abscess successfully treated by hypodermic injections of soluble salts of emetine (1 and 2) in which the rapidity of recovery from both very acute and very chronic attacks was 1 emavkable. Wrhat is wanted, however, to enable the merits of the new method to be estimated, is a consecutive series of cases o...