NOTES ON DYSENTERY VACCINATION

Notes on Forster's Vaccine Treatment of Dysentery

General interest has been aroused in Foster's vaecine treatment of dysentery, which has given such striking results in this Jail, and, under the circumstances, I think the following illustrative cases may be of interest. Already cases have been reported in the Indian Medical Gazette showing the efficacy of the vaccine in old standing and chronic cases. In this jail the treatment has for some ti...

Notes Experimental Bacillary Dysentery in Rabbits

In reproducing shigellosis similar to that of human beings, monkeys have so far been employed as the most suitable experimental animal (Honjo et al., 1964; Ogawa et al., 1964 and 1966; Formal, LaBrec and Schneider, 1965; Voino-Yasenetsky, 1965). Recently, some experimental models for Shigella infection, using laboratory animals other than monkeys, have also been developed. However, they could n...

Notes on the Mercurial Treatment of Chronic Dysentery, Cholera and Liver Complaints

In the Campbell Hospital I have been observing the effects of Hydrarg37ri Sulphidum Nigrum and of Hydrargyri Sulphidum Rubrum in cases of chronic dysentery and chronic liver complaints for over two years. Hydrargyri Sulphidum Nigrum is prepared by rubbing together equal parts of mercury and sulphur. When this chemical compound is heated just to allow the sulphur to melt, the fused mass becomes ...

Studies on vaccination against bacillary dysentery. 4. Oral immunization with live monotypic and combined vaccines.

Results of tests made in 1964 confirm the previous findings that live oral vaccine, prepared from streptomycin-dependent strains of shigellae, confers a strong, type-specific protection against acute bacillary dysentery. This vaccine did not reduce the carrier rate of shigellae. Observations on soldiers treated with a vaccine of Shigella flexneri serotypes 2a and 3 combined revealed no antagoni...

Observations on Dysentery in Children.