Observations on the Treatment of 25 Cases of Kala-Azar with Stibatin (Sodium Antimony Gluconate) *Being a paper read at the Annual General Meeting of the Surma Valley and Chittagong Division of the British Medical Association held at the Lungla Club on 26th January, 1946. †The paper condensed by the editor.

severe toxic reactions and, as such, small children, corpulent subjects and patients suffering from general anasarca, not an uncommon condition associated with kala-azar, could not be treated with urea stibamine. At the Annual General Meeting of the Assam and Northern Bengal Branch of the British Medical Association that was held in Shillong in November 1943, Shortt read an interesting paper dealing with the history of researches on kala-azar in Assam and in the discussions that followed Burke and Chakravarty (1944) of Mangaldai Medical Association described the most encouraging results they had obtained with stibatin which, they said, was remarkably non-toxic and could be administered both by the intramuscular and the intravenous routes.