THE TREATMENT OF KALA-AZAR BY "BAYER 205."

"Bayer 205" in Kala-Azar

a relationship between kala-azar and sleepingsickness, and it is natural that any drug which has given good results in cases of sleepingsickness should be tried in kala-azar. Probably the first occasion on which a trypanicidal drug was tried in kala-azar was about the year 1906 when two cases of kalaazar were treated by myself in the Ezra Hospital, Calcutta with a drug called ' arrhenal.' The r...

The Failure of "Bayer 205" in the Treatment of Kala-Azar

eases and, although both diseases are caused by protozoa, from a protozoological point of view, there is little ground for association. To the layman, or even to the general practitioner, there is some similarity between the wriggling trypanosome in the blood and the darting herpetomonad in the culture medium, but the protozoologist can see more similarity between the proverbial chalk and chees...

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...

Treatment of Indian 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...