Sodium Antimonyl Tartrate in Kala-Azar

Kala-Azar : A Preliminary Note on the Treatment by the Intramuscular Injection of a Special Preparation of Sodium Antimonyl Tartrate

When the compilers of the British Pharmacopoeia laid clown the standard of purity necessary for potassium antimonyl tartrate, they expected that the drug would be used only for external application or in minute doses by the mouth, and they did not anticipate that it would be poured in comparatively large doses directly into the patient's circulatory system. Had they done so, they would doubtles...

Observations on the Treatment of Kala-Azar with Urea Stibamine in the Medical Out-Patient Department of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta

By N. C. KAPUR, m.r.c.s. (Eng.), L.R.C.p. (Lond.), MAJOR, I.M.S., Resident Physician, Medical College Hospital, Calcutta. The prolonged course of treatment required to bring about sterilization with tartar emetic or sodium antimonyl tartrate in cases of kala-azar, and the fact that in a definite percentage of cases the disease is resistant to these salts led me to give a trial to urea stibamine...

A New Serological Test for Kala-Azar

Recently, Major R. N. Chopra, i.m.s., Pro| fessor of Pharmacology at the Calcutta School ; of Tropical Medicine, whilst carrying out some j pharmacological experiments with antimony ; compounds, noticed that when the serum from a kala-azar patient was added to certain of the pentavalent compounds of antimony a heavy precipitate was formed. He found that this precipitate was not formed if normal...

Cases of Kala-Azar Showing Little or No Improvement with Sodium Antimony Tartrate, Subsequently Cured by Urea Stibamine

Reaction after Intravenous Injection of Antimony, and Its Control by the Use of Normal Saline for the Solution

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Dr. Brahmachari advises the use of sodium chloride in making up antimony solutions for injection, ' and Drs. Napier and Muir state that the use of sodium chloride does not matter much and their injections can be given without sodium chloride. I have recently noticed in my kala-azar centres that while using scale preparation of sodium antimony tart...