In the coastal areas of southern districts of Madras presidency filariasis is very frequently met with and is commonly seen in an endemic form akin to malaria. The disease though not responsible for mortality as much as malaria ranks equally with it in causing hideous and permanent disfiguration and suffering to the inhabitants of these areas. A general practitioner in these rural areas finds f...

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In order to study the flare-up of contact allergy, 35 patients with a contact allergy to gold were given an intramuscular injection of 10 mg gold sodium thiomalate, i.e. the anti-rheumatic drug Myocrisin. Clinical reactions comprised an eczematous flare-up of previously positive patch tests to gold and of a previous dermatitis, which occurred in 80% and 26%, respectively; a toxicoderma-like ras...

The synovial membranes from 16 rheumatoid patients treated with intramuscular injections of gold sodium thiomalate were observed by light and electron microscopy with special reference to the distribution of gold particles in the tissue. 1) Light microscopic study revealed that the gold demonstrated as cytoplasmic granules by OKAMOTO’S histochemical method were contained in the synovial lining ...