Bacillary Dysentery and M.&B. 693 (Sulphapyridine)

Chemotherapy in Bacillary Dysentery

on them. They were treated with sulphanilamide; some of them cleared up within seven to fourteen days and others showed no improvement. These resistant cases were then given sulphapyridine (M.&B. 693) and they all cleared up within four or five days. It appeared from these observations that:? 1. Sulphanilamide is effective against some of the organisms of bacillary dysentery. 2. Sulphapyridine ...

Bacillary Dysentery Treated with M.&.B. 693

Bacillary dysentery is rife in India and the mortality is particularly high amongst the younger age-groups. The public health measures adopted to control or eradicate the disease are far from being satisfactory even in cities and towns, not to speak of rural areas which constitute the major part of India. Taking these facts into consideration if a quick and radical treatment can be instituted a...

Treatment of an Epidemic of Acute Bacillary Dysentery with M&B 693

Sulpha Drugs in Bacillary Dysentery

It is now generally accepted that the sulphonamide drugs have a beneficial effect in bacillary dysentery. Sulphaguanidine, sulphapyridine, succinyl sulphathiazole, phthalyl sulpliathiazole and sulphanilyl benzamide and even sulphanilamide are being found to be more or less beneficial in dysentery cases. But the question arises of the choice of a drug in acute infections and/or removing the pers...

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery

Sir,?There are two points arising from your December editorial on the treatment of acute baeillary dysentery on which I think further comment to be necessary. These are, first, the absorption of sulphapyridine from the gastro-intestinal tract, and second, the mention of chronic baeillary dysentery. To deal with absorption first : the rate of absorption of the sulphonamides varies directly, with...