Histoplasmosis is a fatal infectious disease of tropical America resembling kala-azar of India. It is characterized clinically by splenomegaly, emaciation, irregular pyrexia, leucopenia and anemia. The pathological features are the invasion of endothelial cells in the smaller lymph and blood vessels and capillaries by enormous numbers of a small encapsulated microorganism (Histoplasma capsulatu...

Twenty-seven out of five hundred and fifty three patients hospitalized for visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) died during treatment with sodium antimony gluconate. Data from these patients were evaluated to find out the cause of death. Eight patients had associated diseases such as pulmonary tuberculosis (3), severe malnutrition (1), acute gastroenteritis (1), spleenic infarction (1), acute ren...

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Previous studies (1) of the nasal secretions of patients suffering from kala-azar yielded the following facts: (a) Smears from the nasal cavities of fifteen patients, when examined microscopically, revealed the presence of Leishman-Donovan bodies in nine cases. (b) Smears from the surface of the pharyngeal tonsil and from the saliva of one of these nine cases also showed the presence of leishma...

a brief resume of the events leading up to them. At an informal discussion between Majors II. W. Acton and R. Knowles and Dr. Napier in 1922 it was resolved that the difficult and important problem of kala-azar transmission should be the first to be investigated by the various workers at the School who were in a position to undertake this work. It was shewn by Acton and Knowles (1914) in their ...

I have used milk injections for over six years in various morbid conditions where I considered them beneficial. There is usually a reaction with a hopeful prognosis and a feeling of general well-being when the reaction is over. While Resident Physician at the Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, I saw several cases of enlarged spleens and treated them by local counter-irritants and general medi...

Sir,?The translation of the article of Drs. G. Di Cristana and G. Caronia in the May 15th number of the Journal of Tropical Medicine, reporting the successful treatment of the Mediterranean form of kala-azar by means of tartar emetic intravenously, lias just reached India. I, therefore, write to place on record the fact that I had previously commenced precisely similar treatment of the Indian f...

of trypanosomiasis by intravenous injection of tartar emetic or other soluble salts of antimony, it has been found that though they quickly free the peripheral blood from trypanosomes, still the parasites remain in the internal organs. So far, therefore, the treatment of trypanosomiasis by means of intravenous injection of soluble salts of antimony has not been a permanent success. In kala-azar...

Leishman stained smears prepared from ninety-nine (99) splenic aspirates and eleven (11) slit skin were examined under light microscope in order to detect L.D. bodies at the department of Microbiology, Rajshahi Medical College from 2002 to May 2003. L.D. bodies were found in 46 (46.46%) and 01 (9.09%) samples of splenic aspirates and slit skin smears respectively. Smear positivity and concomita...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Dr. Brahmachari advises the use of sodium chloride in making up antimony solutions for injection, ' and Drs. Napier and Muir state that the use of sodium chloride does not matter much and their injections can be given without sodium chloride. I have recently noticed in my kala-azar centres that while using scale preparation of sodium antimony tart...