Unusual Symptoms Following the Administration of Urea-Stibamine

Fatal Anaphylactic Shock *Rearranged by Editor.

A boy, aged 21 years, had befen suffering from irregular febrile attacks associated with enlarged spleen and liver and progressive anaemia for about nine months. After failure of oral treatment by drugs, the nature of which is not known to the writer, intravenous injection of urea stibamine (Brahmachari) were commenced by a local practitioner. The injections were given at intervals of three or ...

Urea Stibamine Solution as a Test in Kala-Azar

our doubts in most cases. I cannot say it is better than the globulin test. The advantage, however, is that the result of the test is visible in a few minutes and quite distinctive. The procedure is simple and can be carried out by anyone in the mofussil. Technique.?All my cases were tried with a standard solution of urea stibamine, 0.1 gram dissolved in about 3 c.c. of distilled water. The sol...

Observations on the Treatment of Kala-Azar with Urea Stibamine in the Medical Out-Patient Department of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta

By N. C. KAPUR, m.r.c.s. (Eng.), L.R.C.p. (Lond.), MAJOR, I.M.S., Resident Physician, Medical College Hospital, Calcutta. The prolonged course of treatment required to bring about sterilization with tartar emetic or sodium antimonyl tartrate in cases of kala-azar, and the fact that in a definite percentage of cases the disease is resistant to these salts led me to give a trial to urea stibamine...

On the Toxicity of Some Organic Antimonial Drugs Used for the Treatment of Kala-Azar

are widespread. Some indication of the value of antimony is the fact that without treatment the death rate from kala-azar is over 90 per cent, whereas with treatment in Indian kalaazar it is reduced to below 10 per cent. Although tartar emetic was found of value in the treatment of kala-azar, its considerable toxic effects made it imperative to obtain other derivatives which should be better to...

Intra-Muscular Injection of Urea Stibamine