Treatment of Dysentery

acute dysentery, it is par excellence in ordinary sloughing, as distinguished from gangrenous dysentery, where its curative, or rather its conservative power is conspicuously displayed. In this, the immediate danger is the extension of the sloughing into the gangrenous form, and even when this is averted, so much destruction of tissue as to involve subsequently cicatricial contraction and eventual life-long embarrassment or fatal obstruction, not to mention the thickening and consequent narrowing of the lumen of the intestine, should the case become chronic. It, therefore, occurred to me, after much observation of the therapeutical action of ipecacuan in the simpler and less severe forms of the disease, in which sloughing did not happen, that if given, in the manner advocated in this communication, it might arrest the progress of sloughing dysentery, limit the area of its