a day, or every four hours, as the case demands, in doses varying from 30 to 40 grains each time, in adults. It does not produce nausea or any unpleasant sensation on the system. Under its use the motions become feculent, blood and slime disappear, tormina and tenesmus subside, and the patient is gradually restored to health. It is perfectly innocuous, and can be safely given at all ages. In po...

The severity of the illness varied from a few loose stools to the passage of bloody fl.uid up to fifty times per day. Other symptoms included fever, nausea, occasional vomiting and abdominal cramps. There was no obvious relationship 'between the severity of the symptoms and the organism isolated. Abdominal tenderness was a common physical sign. Prostration and dehydration were surprisingly infr...

Following the injection of dysentery antigen in saline or in saline-in-paraffin-oil emulsion into the pad of the rabbit's hind foot, considerable quantities of antibody were recovered from the popliteal lymph node, while the tissue at the site of injection, containing many granulocytes and numerous macrophages, revealed only insignificant quantities of antibody. Following the injection of vario...

Dysentery amebae may live for 72 hours in vitro. The transition of the large vegetative forms into the cyst may be observed in vitro. The large vegetative ameba always passes into an intermediate stage before assuming the small vegetative form. The atypical forms are dysentery amebas with abnormal nuclei and cytoplasm. When circumstances are unfavorable encystment takes place. Under favorable c...

err in diagnosis in the absence of laboratory facilities?as this disease closely resembles cholera. Consequently no reliable statistical figures are available and this type of dysentery does not get the notice it deserves. Information from text books is also scanty as it is generally considered that this malignant form of dysentery is not common. Jails, of course, are ideal places for the study...

the rationale of it. Ipecacuanha ha3 since the last few years been remarkably successful in the treatment of dysentery, and high eulogiums have been passed upon it from different quarters. Many have tried, more or less successfully, to explain its modus operandi. Dr. Hutchinson, in the last number of the Gazette, gives out his view of the action of ipecacuanha in dysentery. He believes that the...

The following figures may be of some interest and value towards settling the question whether jail dysentery is mainly of the amoebic or bacillary type. They were collected in Sylhet jail which, like many of the other jails of Bengal and Assam, regularly has a high admission rate for dysentery. It is a large district jail with a population of between 600 and 700. Facilities for bacteriological ...

Although the incidence of bacillary dysentery in China has been declining progressively, a considerable disease burden still exists. Few studies have analyzed bacillary dysentery across China and knowledge gaps still exist in the aspects of geographic distribution and ecological drivers, seasonality and its association with meteorological factors, urban-rural disparity, prevalence and distribut...

The Portulaca oleracea L. (P. oleracea) has been used to treat bacillary dysentery for thousands of years in China. Pharmacology studies on P. oleracea have also showed its significant antibacterial effects on the enteropathogenic bacteria, which might reveal the treatment of P. oleracea in cases of bacillary dysentery to some extent. To date, however, the therapeutic basis of P. oleracea treat...