NOTES ON THE SERUM TREATMENT OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY, AND ON DYSENTERY ARTHRITIS.

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery

Sir,?There are two points arising from your December editorial on the treatment of acute baeillary dysentery on which I think further comment to be necessary. These are, first, the absorption of sulphapyridine from the gastro-intestinal tract, and second, the mention of chronic baeillary dysentery. To deal with absorption first : the rate of absorption of the sulphonamides varies directly, with...

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery

The Research on the Acupuncture Treatment of Acute Bacillary Dysentery

This study discusses minutely the clinical treatment of acute Bacillary Dysentery by acupuncture method and reports here its proven ability to control the disease.

Notes Experimental Bacillary Dysentery in Rabbits

In reproducing shigellosis similar to that of human beings, monkeys have so far been employed as the most suitable experimental animal (Honjo et al., 1964; Ogawa et al., 1964 and 1966; Formal, LaBrec and Schneider, 1965; Voino-Yasenetsky, 1965). Recently, some experimental models for Shigella infection, using laboratory animals other than monkeys, have also been developed. However, they could n...

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery by Cresol

By Captain C. C. DAS GUPTA, m.b., Chief Medical Officer, Hossainabad Group of Tea Estates, P. O. Gopalbagan, Jalpaiguri. Ljijution ant-Colo Niii, F. J. Palmer, in his article on " The treatment of cholera by cresol" published in the Indian Medical Gazette for August 1924, mentions that he tried cresol (Sanitol) in a small but severe outbreak of baciilary dysentery with satisfactory results. In ...