Amœbic Dysentery in India

bacteriological examinations after death in a few cases, and have usually succeeded in isolating organisms which grow in the depths of a glucose agar culture without the production of any gas bubbles, and in one case, also, obtained a similar culture from the spleen. In other respects these bacilli closely resembled that described by Shiga as the cause of dysentery in Japan ; while Flexuer, in America, and other observers have also confirmed Shiga's original observations on the etiology of this disease. It seemed advisable, therefore, to test the serum reactions of a series of cases of dysentery with different strains of dysentery bacilli, including that isolated by myself, in order to see if the bacillary form of the disease could be differentiated clinically by this means, as the amoebic type is said not to react with