Sixty Cases of Amœbic Dysentery Illustrating the Treatment by Ipecacuanha and Emetine Respectively
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X have already published details of several cases of amoebic dysentery, hepatitis and liver abscess successfully treated by hypodermic injections of soluble salts of emetine (1 and 2) in which the rapidity of recovery from both very acute and very chronic attacks was 1 emavkable. Wrhat is wanted, however, to enable the merits of the new method to be estimated, is a consecutive series of cases of amoebic colitis compared with a similar series in which the well established treatment with ipecacuanha has been used. This desideratum I propose to supply in the present paper, which will deal with thirty consecutive cases under my care in the Isolation Ward of the Medical College Hospital in which ipecacuanha
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