A New Treatment for Naga Sore

Treatment of Naga Sore

Sir,?In their excellent paper on Naga Sore, in the January number of the Indian Medical Gazette, Drs. Panja and Ghosh have mentioned my copped sulphate-phenol solution under the heading ?* treatment. May I draw attention to a modification of my original solution, recommended by James (1938), which I have found superior. It consists in the substitution glycerine for water and the formula is as f...

Treatment of Naga Sore

Naga Sore in Jamnagar

sore has appeared among the class of people (not necessarily poor) who, during a heavy rainy season, walked in mud and worked in marshy localities, barefooted. Forty-five inches of rain, mud and marshy conditions?and Naga sore were not previously known to this place. The same thing happened in Benares last summer, when heavy rainfall flooded the area, resulting in mud and marsh so that Naga sor...

Effect of Penicillin on a Case of Ulcus Tropicum (Naga Sore)

Sir,?As I do not find in the literature any record ?f penicillin being used in the treatment of Naga sore, * beg to submit the following observation of mine ^or publication in the journal. I used penicillin (Lilly) on a case and found very encouraging results. The patient had a well-developed typical sore on his foot measuring about 1$ inches diameter. Fusiform bacilli were present in the disch...

Naga Sore

Sir,?Recently I read with interest the ' Report on the Occurrence of Naga Sore in Calcutta' by Drs. Panja and Ghosh in your January issue. In my sixteen years' practice, the disease was rarely found here; though it has been always endemic in the hilly parts 30 to 40 miles off from this tea estate. In 1942, some labourers who were sent for road work to the hills near the Burma border returned wi...