Atebrin in the Treatment of Malaria in Railway Employees

Mass Treatment with Injectable Atebrin

In the course of experiments conducted at the Colombo General Hospital during the malaria epidemic in Ceylon with atebrin-dimethylsulphonate (musonate) a method was elaborated by which it became possible to effectively treat severe cases of malaria with two injections given at an interval of 24 hours without any other additional treatment (Blaze and Simeons, 1935). The results obtained in these...

Malaria and Its Treatment by the Synthetic Remedies: Atebrin and Plasmochin

Observations on the Relative Value of Atebrin and Quinine as Therapeutic Agents in Malaria *Read at a meeting of the Assam Frontier and Budla Beta Medical Society held on 23rd February, 1935.

(1) To determine the relative e ca(?7. , atebrin and quinine in controlling c i symptoms of malaria. . . f (2) To ascertain their relative value in ing the peripheral blood of malaria Parasl ; (3) To note their relative efficacy in reducing splenic enlargements due to ma ar c. Alternate malaria cases were trea ec hosnital with atebrin and quinine respec ive y. Blood slides (thick and thin films...

On the Efficacy of 'Butyl Acridine' in the Treatment of Malaria

General.?Recently it has been shown by Siddons and Bose (1944) that the compound (2-chloro-7 methoxy 5S-diethyl-amino-butyl) amino-acridine, hereafter called the butyl acridine, was highly effective in controlling the infection of Plasmodium knowlesi in rhesus monkeys even in small doses. The same compound has previously been shown by one of us (Basu and Bose, 1941) to exert a considerably high...

The Behaviour of Plasmodia in the Mosquito after Treatment of the Human Host with Atebrin

more complete. We may say that we have been working for some time on the side of the subject indicated by the above title with several drugs and hope to be able to submit our more" general results at a later date. With regard to our present observations they were made on the following case of human malaria. A Mahommedan male, aged 23, suffering from malignant tertian malaria was on December 12t...