Treatment of Filariasis by Lithium Antimony Thiomalate
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In the coastal areas of southern districts of Madras presidency filariasis is very frequently met with and is commonly seen in an endemic form akin to malaria. The disease though not responsible for mortality as much as malaria ranks equally with it in causing hideous and permanent disfiguration and suffering to the inhabitants of these areas. A general practitioner in these rural areas finds fairly high percentage of this disease in his daily out-patient work. Recently even the President of the Indian National Congress in his address at Jaipur session has made a reference to this disease amongst the diseases which the Health Department of the Union Government is to tackle immediately and earnestly. All members of the medical profession are fully aware of the extensive damage caused by this disease to the lymphatic system resulting in its varied manifestations such as lymphangitis, abscesses, lymph scrotum, chyluria, hydroceles, and elephantiasis. In spite of such common occurrence of this disease attempts to eradicate it both by preventive and curative measures are few and far between. Every medical man knows that this disease is an easily preventable one by mass education. It will be interesting to note that even the highly educated people in these
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The Present Position of Antimony Treatment of Filariasis: With a Suggestion for Its Intensive Use
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