Parasitic infestation is common in developing countries especially in Africa. Children are often more vulnerable to these infections. Many health problems result from these infestations, including malnutrition, iron-deficiency anemia, surgical morbidities, and even impaired cognitive function and educational achievement. Surgical intervention may be needed to treat serious complications caused ...

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...

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