A New Remedy for Dysentery
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We have been favoured by the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, with the perusal of papers relating to a remedy which promises to rival Ipecacuanha in its power over acute dysentery. The credit of bringing this remedy to notice belongs to AssistantSurgeon Umrito Lall Deb, attached to the Howrah General Hospital. In December 1876 SurgeonMajor K. Bird, M. D., Civil Surgeon of Howrah, submitted a report by the Assistant-Surgeon, in which he stated that he had found the root of the plant called in Bengalee Rungun, belonging to the genus Ixora, to be very efficacious in the treatment of dysentery. He had tried four species of this genus but, while he found them all successful in curing dysentery, he gave the preference to the Ixora bandxuca (Roxb.) He had tried it in acute and chronic cases with very marked benefit, and considered it superior to Ipecacuanha. It possessed the undoubted advantage of not causing nausea ; on the contrary it was aromatic
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