Analysis of 242 Cases of Sprue in Indian Troops *Published by kind permission of the D. M. S. in India.

sprue (Chaudhuri and Rai Chaudhuri, 1944), nutritional diarrhoea (Karamchandani, 1944), incomplete sprue (Manson-Bahr, 1940), chronic jejuno-ileal insufficiency (Bennett and Hardwick, 1940), and vitamin B deficiency syndrome allied to sprue (Cook, 1944). Rogers (Rogers and Megaw, 1942) is of the view that unexplained diarrhoea of more than 10 days' duration should be treated as sprue, provided amoebic disease is excluded. We are in agreement with the last view ; it is not necessary that the whole picture with glossitis, flatulent dyspepsia, fatty diarrhoea containing high percentage of split fat, emaciation and macrocytic anaemia must be complete before the label of sprue should be applied.