Indian Fevers

Cinchonidine and Wrightia Antidysenterica as Prophylactics against Dysentery and Malaria

During the discussion on the prophylaxis of malarial fevers by Major Duncan, I.MS., at the Indian Medical Congress, it was stated by one ot the speakers (Transactions of Indian Medical Congress, page 153), that ' Inderjao,' Wrightici Antidysenterica, had marvellous prophylactic effects in fevers. I have for some time used the drug with great success in cases of acute dysentery, but had never gi...

Parenteral Quinacrine in Malarial Fevers

Indian Fevers

To thia I would, in response to Dr. Ross's enquiry, state that in my experience the large majority of cases of malarial fever exhibit little or no intestinal deraugement. and am .n inf,0, P?s'tion from my own observations to endorse the views o the etiology of Indian fevers, which he puts forward in the paper under consideration. It is an undoubted fact that wherever wo have any such intestinal...

On Certain Points in Connection with Malarial Fevers in India

will suggest itself to you that such a comprehensive subject as Indian fevers could be touched on only in the slightest and most superficial manner, in the brief space accorded me. Instead, therefore, of endeavouring to wander discursively through the wide domain of Indian fevers generally, I shall attempt to limit my remarks to some few, select, points in the history of what is par excellence ...

The Bacillus Malariæ

not exist?where there is neither soil to support the vegetation, nor moisture to develope them. In the great sandy desert of Northern India, and other similar regions in Asia, in the Sahara, and amongst the bare and sun-baked rocks of Beloochistan and Aden, the same fevers occur as in the marsh. In some very hot and dry situations, such as low ranges of rocky hills, the fevers disappear on the ...

The Typhus Group of Fevers

" typhus-like fever" occurring under such conditions are often very puzzling, and this paper is an attempt to throw some light on the miscellaneous fevers of this group. In articles in the Indian Medical Gazette in January 1917 (1) and October 1921 (2) I brought forward evidence which suggested that typhus-like fevers, such as those described by McKechnie in the Kumaon Hills, by McNaught in Sou...