Dysentery in Jails
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a matter of quantity and it should never be forgotten that Lieutenant-Colonel Dobson, i.m.s. (retd.), showed the high percentage of health/ coolies, collected and the medically passed for Assam Tea Gardens, who were infected, but such mild infections do not mean or imply the existence of any condition worthy to be called ankylostomiasis. Our author, too, should have noted that the other allied worm Necator Americanus is (at least in Bengal) almost as common as the A. duodenale. The distinction between amoebic dysentery and bacillary is very important, as it is absurd to waste emetin 011 bacillary cases, whereas it should certainly be used on amoebic cases and {pace certain writers), the clinical or even micros-
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