THE research on which this paper is based, was carried out between September 1916, and April 1917, while the writer was in charge of the Carrier Depot Hospital, Nairobi, British East Africa. Dysentery was the most serious disease met with amongst the porters of the Military Labour Bureau in the early days of the East African Campaign, and was the main cause of death and invaliding even as late ...

These patients were admitted to a malnutrition ward of an Indian military hospital. Twenty-three of them were relieved of their symptoms; three died. All the 23 patients except one were Muslims and non-vegetarians. They had stayed in the forward areas for a period varying from 4 to 36 months when the symptoms commenced. The majority developed diarrhoea within the first year of their stay. Seven...

tudes. My Journal of Ship Alnwick Castle says :?" 14? S. L.?W. L. ; more diarrhoea and dysentery this week than formerly : weather now warm, noon temp. 75?: some change in the systems of the people in passing into the tropics, fr< m the Cape latitudes, from cold to warm." f Type of Dinrrhaa.?I have made post mortevis of Natives, in whom the whole length of the large intestine, at its mesenteric...

Rhus semialata Murr. (Anacardiaceae) is a deciduous tree of north eastern India. The fruit of this plant is traditionally used to control diarrhoea and dysentery. The Present study was undertaken to evaluate anti-diarrhoeal potency of methanol extract of fruits of R. semialata using Wister albino rats to substantiate folklore claims. The extract at graded doses (100, 200, 400 and 600 mg/kg body...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the incremental costs, effects and cost-effectiveness of zinc used as adjunct therapy to standard treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea, including dysentery, and to reassess the cost-effectiveness of standard case management with oral rehydration salt (ORS). METHODS A decision tree was used to model expected clinical outcomes and expected costs under four alternative tre...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Shigella flexneri is the most common species of Shigella causing diarrhoea and dysentery in Asia including India. Multidrug resistance in Shigella species has been reported worldwide and there is rising concern regarding development of fluoroquinolone resistance. This study was undertaken to find out the resistance pattern of Sh. flexneri, the commonest shigella isolated...

Peltophorum africanum (Fabaceae) is a deciduous tree widespread in southern Africa. The plant has many ethnomedical and ethnoveterinary uses. Root and bark decoctions are used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, sore throat, wounds, back and joint pains, HIV-AIDS, venereal diseases and infertility. Pastoralists and rural farmers use the root and bark extracts to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, infertili...

The symptoms, pathology, course and complications of such deficiency diseases as pellagra, beriberi, and scurvy are well defined, even if the final details of their aetiologies have not been decided. But these are conditions which are familiar to many medical men who work among the indigent classes of the tropics and to which they refer by such indefinite terms as marasmus, malnutrition, defici...

Serum interleukin 6 (IL-6) and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) were measured in children with dysentery during an epidemic caused by Shigella dysenteriae 1. IL-6 and TNF were also measured in fresh stool filtrates from children with acute gastroenteritis. The median serum IL-6 concentration was raised significantly in the children with complications (haemolytic uraemic syndrome, leukemoid reaction...

Kaempferia galanga (Family: Zingiberaceae) has immense importance in traditional health care system as a carminative, cholera, antiinflammatory, abdominal pain, dyspepsia and stomachic as well as in the diseases of coughs, pectoral affections and stoppage of the nasal blocks. Grewia paniculata (Family: Malvaceae) has been used in traditional medicine for treatment of indigestion, eczema, itch, ...