Mr. McHale on Cannabis Indica for Dysentery

To the Editob, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sib,?Will you allow me to testify through your paper to the efficacy of Tinct. Cannabis Indict, as advocated by Dr. Rennie in the treatment of chronic dysentery. I suffered from it for a period of over two years?from October 1884 to January, 1887. I first had an attack of acute dysentery in Calcutta in October 1884, and though I took most medicines advocated for dysentery, I could not cure myself, and it gradually lapsed into the chronic stage. I left Calcutta in the early part of 1885, and thought the change would do me good, but was mistaken, the dysentery still continued. The motions were the usual kind met with in these cases, frequent, very offensive, dark-coloured, with very little if any blood. The pains in the stomach were a source of great trouble. I became thin and emaciated, and dared not eat anything except milk and soup. In the December number of the Indian Medical Gazette, I came across Dr. Rennie's paper, advocating the Tincture of Indian Hemp in dysentery, and as I had tried almost everything, I determined to give this a trial, accordingly, I took the mixture as given in the Gazette, and found, after taking it a week, that the paius in the stomach had entirely vanished, the stools changed in character and number, and I felt myself very much better. I continued it for about a month and found myself quite cured. I then took to the ordinary kind of food, which I had not been able to take for months previously. The dysentery did not return, and I am now quite well, but as a precaution take