Paresis Following Emetine Injections

The Use of Emetine Intravenously

Sir.?I have read the remarks of Majors H. W. Acton and R. Knowles, i.m.s., on p. 331 of the Indian Medical Gazette for July, that when "given intravenously, emetine is too toxic to be tolerated in any but absolutely minimal doses." My experience, however, has been otherwise. For the past two years or more I have always given emetine intravenously, unless contra-indicated by the age of the patie...

Emetine Injections in Sprue

Notes on Some Remedies IX. Amœbicides

There'is still an impression that the treatment of intestinal amcebiasis consists in simply giving a course of emetine injections which can be repeated periodically if the symptoms persist. This probably arose from the fact that, as with all new methods of treatment, early reports on emetine were unduly optimistic. The immediate effects of injections on the acute stage of amoebic dysentery, wit...

Chronic Diarrhœa Radically Cured by Emetine Hydrochlor

a week, causing from 3 to 15 motions a day, semi-liquid or watery in consistency, consisting mostly of undigested food. Duration of disease four years. Patient's general health not bad. The abdominal examination elicited only borboi ygmi and gas in the intestines. In the beginning of my treatment I used every available intestinal astringent and antiseptic, but the benefit derived by the patient...

Emetine in Cholera

With a view to testing this hypothesis I commenced in March, 1914. to give hypodermic injections of emetine hydrochloride in half grain doses morning and evening, in addition to the routine treatment by hypertonic salines intravenously and permanganates by the mouth. The mortality of cholera in Calcutta varies in different seasons of the year and even from one month to another, and to a still g...