Sonne Dysentery in Aberdeen

The Use of Sulfaguanidine for Prophylaxis in Sonne Bacillary Dysentery, and in the Control of the Carrier State *

In an earlier paper the therapeutic effectiveness of sulfathiazole used during the acute stages of Sonne bacillary dysentery was demonstrated.5 However, it was shown also that sulfonamide therapy did not curtail the period during which the Sonne organism could be recovered by rectal cultures. Actually, there appeared to be statistical evidence that this period was prolonged when compared with u...

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Performance details for special purpose, high velocity sabots are described. These sabots were designed and developed for launching high density projectiles, of rod form, with overall length to diameter ratios varying from less than one to twenty-five.

Aberdeen Typhoid Epidemic

SIR,-May I add a postscript to the delightful and fully deserved eulogy of the late Sir Harold Gillies by your correspondent Mr. Patrick Clarkson (10 September, p. 641). I was present in Boulogne one day in the autumn of 1915 with a Captain Harry Grey, a Canadian E.N.T. surgeon, when the meeting I am about to describe took place. He and I, as officers of the same motor ambulance unit near Poper...

Aberdeen Growth Study

Between 1923 and 1927 the late Professor Alexander Low measured a series of newborn babies, and in the subsequent years he succeeded in measuring 65 of the boys and 59 of the girls at each birthday up to and including 5 years. Twenty-one physical measurements were made on each child (always by Professor Low himself) and a record was kept of the number of erupted teeth, the time of closure of th...

Dysentery in Asylums