Antimony in Malaria
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A few months ago we refused to publish in this journal an advertisement of an antimony preparation which was said to be a specific remedy for malaria in all forms. This preparation appeared to be an ordinary pentavalent one. In our present number we publish an article by P. C. Sen Gupta on malaria complicating kala-azar, in which it is recorded that malaria may occur during or immediately after the period when the patient with kala-azar is being treated with pentavalent antimony. This is perhaps sufficient commentary on the value of pentavalent antimony in the treatment of malaria. Previous work on the subject had shown that the effect of antimony on the attacks of malaria was very slight indeed.
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