SANTONIN IN SPRUE,

Anthelmintic Properties of Santonin'

In the world of therapeutics certain drugs or preparations have been used for so many years that the statements in the literature, especially in the textbooks and also in articles in professional journals, as to the action of these drugs have a tendency to reiterate impressionistic ideas or traditions. Printed statements are ordinarily copied and passed on with little or no attempt to substanti...

The Price of Santonin

To the Editor, "The Indian Medical G ^ \ouv . Sir,?Comment was made in a readers will be Journal on the price of santonin. 0 .< announced a 'nterested to know that we have rece well-known substantial reduction in the price o auantities is drug. Our reduced price for wholesaic 1 ^ per. e(iuivalent to about 29s. 9d. per oz., explanation?1 pain. Our new scale of prices and November nave appeared i...

Microbial Transformations of α-Santonin

Fungal biotransformations of α-santonin (1) were conducted with Mucor plumbeus (ATCC 4740), Cunninghamella bainieri (ATCC 9244), Cunninghamella echinulata (ATCC 9245), Curvularia lunata (ATCC 12017) and Rhizopus stolonifer (ATCC 10404). Rhizopus stolonifer (ATCC 10404) metabolized compound 1 to afford 3,4-epoxy-α-santonin (2) and 4,5-dihydroα-santonin (3) while Cunninghamella bainieri (ATCC 924...

Dysgammaglobulinaemia in tropical sprue.

Study of immunoglobulin levels in 16 Indian control subjects showed that, compared with a Danish control series, they had a significantly higher mean level of IgG, but not of IgA or IgM. By contrast, the IgG levels in eight patients with tropical sprue were decreased or low normal in six cases and raised in only one case. Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover stud...

Emetine Injections in Sprue