A Case of Plague Successfully Treated with Sulphapyridine

. Cases of plague are admitted from^og_ time to the Campbell Medical S during Pital. Two such cases were adl?tenne 0{ Us 1939, and were under the care of o (B. C. C.). No anti-plague serum was ^av ^ able so that treatment by 0 JL+ted early ^ resorted to. The first case, i? ̂ venll^ the year, was treated with 10 ously, and died on the third day of he hospital. The second casei, wh cli forma ^ subJect of this report, was that o ^ symptoms aged 6 years who was admitted ^ of bubonic plague on 6th ^b^98^ to child and her mother had left , because ^"ive in Calcutta four days prevlously ^ plague had broken out in their v.,t&rrn e child ?f their neighbours had died of i ?, admisdeveloped fever and a bubo a day befoi Rion to hospital. n* The success that has attended t ic ^ver?j sulphapyridine in the treatmen netting bacterial infections and the difficul y anti-plague serum led us to emp which Pound for the treatment of this <sas material I nsteurella pestis was isolated obtained by puncture of the bubo. The patient was given one tablet (0J5 gm-^he Pyridine every four hours on the hrst wgn following morning, her condition appeared to be worse; she was very toxic and delirious, her temperature was 103?F., pulse 120, respiration 28, and both her lungs