The Cure of Schistosomiasis by the Intravenous Injection of Antimony Tartrate
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Under the title " Experimental Studies ill Bilharzia Therapy ($. spindalis)Dr. Hamilton Fairley, in the August 1924 issue of the Indian Medical Gazette, published details of a comparative investigation of the action of antimony tartrate and emetine on goats experimentally infected with 6". spindalis. Dr. Fairley found emetine superior to antimony tartrate as a specific cure for the goats and wrote:?"It will be very surprising if the superiority of emetine hydrochloride does not hold for the human types of schistosomiasis as well."
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