Major conflicts in history have yielded an equal number of medical casualties as those injured in battle, and no more common a problem exists in the insanitary conditions of war as dysentery. The complication of arthritis following dysentery has been documented since ancient times, but it is not until the 16th Century that these cases appear in any numbers, and then it is predominantly in milit...

bacteriological examinations after death in a few cases, and have usually succeeded in isolating organisms which grow in the depths of a glucose agar culture without the production of any gas bubbles, and in one case, also, obtained a similar culture from the spleen. In other respects these bacilli closely resembled that described by Shiga as the cause of dysentery in Japan ; while Flexuer, in ...

In the Army Medical Reports for 186-5 will be found a case of dysentery, communicated by me, which was remarkable for the associated hepatic abscesses. These abscesses, which were countless in number, were all of very small size, and their origin, within the capillaries of the portal system, was demonstrated. I remarked that the case appeared to throw, a strong light upon the manner in which he...

perature 99?F., pulse 100 per minute, respiration 34 per minute, abdomen distended, slight rigidity on the right side about the lumbar and the iliac region, agonizing pain occurring in spasms, and slight tenderness over this area, but nothing suggestive of general peritonitis. No tumour was palpable. The case was regarded as one of acute bacillary dysentery at the time of admission, but one not...

Bacillary dysentery is rife in India and the mortality is particularly high amongst the younger age-groups. The public health measures adopted to control or eradicate the disease are far from being satisfactory even in cities and towns, not to speak of rural areas which constitute the major part of India. Taking these facts into consideration if a quick and radical treatment can be instituted a...

acute dysentery, it is par excellence in ordinary sloughing, as distinguished from gangrenous dysentery, where its curative, or rather its conservative power is conspicuously displayed. In this, the immediate danger is the extension of the sloughing into the gangrenous form, and even when this is averted, so much destruction of tissue as to involve subsequently cicatricial contraction and event...

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, sub...

Brachyspira hyodysenteriae is the primary cause of swine dysentery, which is responsible for major economic losses to the pig industry worldwide. The hemolytic activity of 10 B. hyodysenteriae strains isolated from stools of pigs with mild to mucohemorrhagic diarrhea was compared and seven hemolysis associated genes were sequenced. Hemolysis induced by these strains varied from strong to near a...

In an earlier paper the therapeutic effectiveness of sulfathiazole used during the acute stages of Sonne bacillary dysentery was demonstrated.5 However, it was shown also that sulfonamide therapy did not curtail the period during which the Sonne organism could be recovered by rectal cultures. Actually, there appeared to be statistical evidence that this period was prolonged when compared with u...

struck by the frequency with which this disease is associated with tubercle of the lungs. The first reference 1 can find to this subject is in the Annual Administration Report on the Jails of Bengal for the year 1893. " The connection between tubercle of the lungs and dysentery has been brought forward in a note by Surgeon Captain W. J. Buchanan (of the Midnapore Central Jail) whose observation...