Forced Feeding in Acute Dysentery

great importance. Realizing all this and being entitled to reasonable satisfaction with their results, general practitioners rarely bother to get a specimen investigated. They hardly ever delay treatment until a laboratory report is forthcoming, though in a strictly clinical sense this is what they might be expected to do. Before the advent of the siulpjionamides majority of the cases was treated in general practice as amoebic with emetine and oral amoebicides. Even to-day the sulphonamides are usually reserved for the second therapeutic assault, though statistics tend to show that bacillary is more common than acute amoebic dysentery. No amount of pathological persuasion will convince the general practitioner that he can materially improve his results by basing his treatment strictly on etiological considerations.