The Spontaneous Absorption of Amœbic Abscess of the Liver under Emetine Therapy

A Comparison of Chloroquine and Emetine in the Treatment of Amœbic Liver Abscess

Sixty Cases of Amœbic Dysentery Illustrating the Treatment by Ipecacuanha and Emetine Respectively

X have already published details of several cases of amoebic dysentery, hepatitis and liver abscess successfully treated by hypodermic injections of soluble salts of emetine (1 and 2) in which the rapidity of recovery from both very acute and very chronic attacks was 1 emavkable. Wrhat is wanted, however, to enable the merits of the new method to be estimated, is a consecutive series of cases o...

Two Interesting Cases of Liver Abscess

In view of the report in the Indian Medical Gazette for October 1924, p. 488, by Captain ASargood Fry, i.m.s., of spontaneous absorption of large abscesses of the liver under emetine therapy alone, without even aspiration, the following two cases may be of interest. In the first a large abscess was present, and, with the exception of 1 c.c. of pus withdrawn by a hypodermic syringe in order to c...

The Treatment of Hepatic Abscesses of Amœbic Origin *Being an abstract of a paper read before the Patna Medical Society on October 29th, 1926.

The object of this paper is twofold:? 1. To show that liver abscesses can be cured by emetine alone. 2. To suggest definite rules for their treatment. Sir Leonard Rogers in his Lettsomian Lectures, reported in the Lancet of March 11th, 1922, p. 465 ct scq., gives a masterly statement of his researches. He states that single or multiple abscesses can be cured by simple drug treatment, and that a...

The Emetine and Other Treatment of Amœbic Dysentery and Hepatitis Including Liver Abscess *Read at Medical Section of Asiatic Society of Bengal

say very little on the value of hypodermic injections of emetine hydrochloride introduced by me last year, as the rapid specific curative action of this treatment has been generally recognized in all parts of the world where amoebic cases are met with, and it is not too much to say that one of the most distressing and intractable diseases of tropical and sub-tropical climates has been conquered.