Dysentery as It Occurs in Jails with Regard to Etiology, Prophylaxis and Treatment
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It must be clearly understood that the disease, as it occurs in jails, is in no way different from that occurring in the free population ; the only difference is one of severity, being more virulent in certain jails, and this I put down to the large number of men confined in a certain space, not necessarily overcrowded, to the depressing effect of jail life, and in certain cases to bad sanitation and the difficulty of segregation. Before proceeding I hold that there are two kinds of dysentery. One true dysentery which is specific, and a non-specific variety, and unless this is clearly borne in mind, the treatment and prophylaxis taken can only be haphazard. In both cases blood and slime is passed with tenesmus, but the cause in each is different and wide apart. In true dysentery or specific dysentery the cause is either amoebic or bacillus. Dr. Craig divides dysentery into two kinds : 1st, specific or bacillary which includes the chronic form of acute dysentery due to the bacillus of Shiga ; and 2nd, the amoebic, the specific form is "differentiated from amoebic by the absence of amoebie in the teceS, and in a majority of cases by the occurrence of agglutination of the pure culture of Shiga bacillus by the blood serum of a patient suffering from the disease or by the isolation of the bacillus from the fteces from the intestinal ulceration," both these cases I group under the heading true or specific dysentery ; and my second variety, non-specific, due to error in diet, chill, &c. The literature 011 true dysentery is voluminous, but I have seen little or 110 mention being made of the non-specific variety, and as ? have no doubt that the etiology of specific or true dysentery will be fully written on by others who have
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