Pleuromutilins (tiamulin and valnemulin) are antimicrobial agents that are used mainly in veterinary medicine, especially for swine and to a lesser extent for poultry and rabbits. In pigs, tiamulin and valnemulin are used to treat swine dysentery, spirochaete-associated diarrhoea, porcine proliferative enteropathy, enzootic pneumonia and other infections where Mycoplasma is involved. There are ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Acute gastroenteritis is generally considered a self-limiting illness that does not require the use of antibiotics. However, many emergency departments in the country frequently prescribe antibiotics to patients presenting with diarrhoea. This review attempts to determine whether this practice is reasonable. Our objective was to determine the role of antimicrobials in the...

Seeing that the use of mercury has been deprecated in all stages and forms of dysentery (Maclean in Russell Reynolds' .System of Medicine), I hesitated for sometime to use the perchloride in a declared case of that disease; but at length, after noting its great value iu many cases of diarrhoea, as previously mentioned, I was induced to try it in acute dysentery ; the results were highly satisfa...

Gum acacia is a potent drug having diverse pharmacological effects and wide therapeutic potential. It is used in diarrhoea and dysentery, irritations and ulcers of the stomach and intestine. It is also used in haemoptysis, bleeding piles, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea and spermatorrhoea. Keeping in view the high medicinal importance physico-chemical studies of the drug obtained from Dawakhana Tibbiy...

Assistant Surgeon, Medical College Hospital, Calcutta, ortnerly Clinical Pathologist, Protozoology Depart-' ment, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine.) The; role which Giardia inrcsnnuus may 'n the production of intestinal symptoms is still a disputed point. Nothing very definite can be stated one way or the other. It is claimed on the one hand' that it is frequently present in healthy persons...

In1955 Gaser et al first reported Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children who showed microangiopathic haemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure [1]. HUS, recognised for more than 55 years, is one of the most common causes of acute renal failure in children [2]. It consists of the triad of microangiopathic haemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure. The s...

Administration Report of the Calcutta Municipality for 1875. Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1875. By J. Fullarton Beatson, M.D., Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department. Before considering the sickness and mortality in Calcutta and its institutions in 1875, it will perhaps be well to glance back at the figures of the mortality in previous years, given in the Adminis...

Flesh of the Quail Sweet, bland, non-poisonous. Not to be eaten before the month of May, eaten with pig’s liver it will cause blackheads, with mushrooms one develops haemorrhoids. A visceral tonic and vitalizer. Makes the bones and muscles strong and able to endure cold and heat. It relieves inflammation. With ginger and red mung bean it cures diarrhoea and dysentery. Fried in cream it is fatte...

Euphorbia is a genus of plants belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus assigned the name Euphorbia to the entire genus in the physician's honor. Euphorbia hirta is a very popular herb amongst practitioners of traditional herb medicine, widely used as a decoction or infusion to treat various ailments including intestinal parasites, diarrhoea, peptic ulcers, h...