This is an ever-recurrent subject of considerable contemporary importance and it is one which, in view of therapeutic advances, calls for a periodic review. As a result of the recent war large numbers of ex-Service personnel who have served in India, Burma and in the Far East are. still suffering from and will continue to exhibit recurring symptoms of these disorders for some time to come. Of t...

This is an ever-recurrent subject of considerable contemporary importance and it is one which, in view of therapeutic advances, calls for a periodic review. As a result of the recent war large numbers of ex-Service personnel who have served in India, Burma and in the Far East are. still suffering from and will continue to exhibit recurring symptoms of these disorders for some time to come. Of t...

TO TUB KDITOR OF THE "INDIAN MEDIO ATj GAZETTE." SIR.?I send you herewith a prescription of Bazaar medicines which I have just tried and found to be of great benefit in cases of acute dysentery, the prescription was given to me by the native doctor of Hassur. last .September when dysentery was prevalent here. I have used it in several acute cases, and the result has been really very good, the p...

This is an ever-recurrent subject of considerable contemporary importance and it is one which, in view of therapeutic advances, calls for a periodic review. As a result of the recent war large numbers of ex-Service personnel who have served in India, Burma and in the Far East are. still suffering from and will continue to exhibit recurring symptoms of these disorders for some time to come. Of t...

In the course of studying the mechanism whereby Shiga toxin produces, visceral lesions, it became increasingly clear that the toxin produced its effects indirectly. Direct contact between the toxin and intestinal mucosa in dogs produced no lesions in the exposed loop (1). Certain anatomical peculiarities of the lesions pointed to a vascular component in the development of the structural changes...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In some villages near Mandya in Mysore District, a few cases of dysentery were reported and the health officer in charge of the rural unit sent seven motions from patients suffering from the attack, and two water samples from wells that were reported to have caused dysentery after use, for bacteriological analysis. A relevant portion of this lette...

with scarlet fever in a girl of 16. Stoeckenius2 noted it in association with diphtheria; Herzog,3 with carcinoma of the stomach and peritonitis. Bamforth4 recorded it in a case of a soldier suffering from dysentery. Fahr5 also noted it in association with dysentery in two cases. During the past twenty-seven years 10 cases of acute cortical necrosis have been reported to this Society. Six by Dr...

District Laboratory, Calcutta Numerous observers in the East have stressed the importance and prevalence of bacillary dysentery, particularly when due to infections with the B. flexner group. This statement has been corroborated from time to time by various workers in several parts of India. The following summary of results obtained during 1930-31 in the Military District (comprising mainly Min...

on them. They were treated with sulphanilamide; some of them cleared up within seven to fourteen days and others showed no improvement. These resistant cases were then given sulphapyridine (M.&B. 693) and they all cleared up within four or five days. It appeared from these observations that:? 1. Sulphanilamide is effective against some of the organisms of bacillary dysentery. 2. Sulphapyridine ...