Emetine in Cholera
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With a view to testing this hypothesis I commenced in March, 1914. to give hypodermic injections of emetine hydrochloride in half grain doses morning and evening, in addition to the routine treatment by hypertonic salines intravenously and permanganates by the mouth. The mortality of cholera in Calcutta varies in different seasons of the year and even from one month to another, and to a still greater extent in different
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