A Mahomedan Civilian on Indian Sanitation

A Note on Three Cases Treated with Emetine

S. L. M-, male, Mahomedan, aged 22. History of dysentery of five months' duration contracted in Bombay and for which he wns in a Bombay hospital for three months. He was given emetine hydrochloride i gr. hypodermically morning and evening for three days and this resulted in a gain of 3 lbs. in weight, the disappearance of blood and slime, the passage of a normal motion and a very great improvem...

A Case of Multiple Stones in the Bladder

Naza, Mahomedan male, aged about 50 years, was admitted to this hospital on the 28th September, 1926, complaining" of severe pain on micturition, and at the time of admission of complete retention of urine. He was very weak and emaciated and had threatening signs of uraemia. He gave a history of gleet, and organic stricture of the urethra was also present. On examination it was found that the b...

A Case of Myxoma

Ashabibi, a Mahomedan woman, aged 60, was admitted into the Hospital on the 5th July 1907, suffering from distention of the abdomen. History.?She has been a well-built woman, and has had perfect health all her life, married when quite young, had nine children in all. Menopause 15 years ago. Six months ago patient began to have slight pain in the left iliac region, and the abdomen gradually incr...

Increasing incidence of Crohn's disease in India: is it related to improved sanitation?

Results of Sanitation in India

Surgeon, Rajpootana Political Agency. Under the above heading, an article of mine appeared in tho Indian Medical Gazette for Juno 1867. It was then demonstrated, that notwithstanding the close attention paid to sanitation during recent years, in spite of an almost lavish expenditure on palatial, upper-storied barracks, and in defiance of tho expectations of sanitary reformers, the total loss of...