Dysentery of India

Amœbic Dysentery in India

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 ...

A Comparative Study of Dysentery and Dysentery-like Organisms

The group of dysentery organisms is a large and. varied one. It may be divided, as is well known, into two main sub-groups, the "Shiga-Kruse" and the "mannit-fermenters," which are of equal importance and entirely distinct. If we take decided differences in agglutination, as determined by absorptions, as a criterion of specificity, the latter group includes at least four distinct species with a...

Amœbic Dysentery

Scirrhus Recti in India—The Liability of Mistaking Chronic Dysentery for This Disease

Personal history. ? Arrived at this station from Bangalore suffering from inflammation of the left inguinal glands. At Bangalore he had dysentery and ulceration of the rectum. About a year ago he was admitted to hospital for inflammation of the inguinal glands; but there is no certain history of syphilis. No note of any previous admission for dysentery. On admission?It was noticed that he was s...

The Treatment of Dysentery

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...