DysenteriesH. Frowde, 1913 - 336 pages |
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abdominal acute amoebic dysentery acute hepatitis admission amabæ AMEBIC amœbæ amoebic abscess amoebic colitis amoebic disease amoebic dysentery amoebic ulceration appear ascending colon aspiration bacillary disease bacillary dysentery bacilli blood bowel wall cæcum Calcutta Calcutta Medical College calomel cause cavity cent chronic amoebic climates clinical coli commonly complications condition cured described diagnostic diarrhoea differentiated doses of ipecacuanha drug duration dysen dysenteric symptoms dysentery bacilli early emetine emetine injections especially European extensive fatal fever frequently full doses gangrenous hæmorrhage healthy hepatitis histolytica hospital India inflammatory ipecacuanha large bowel large intestine later lesions less leucocytes leucocytosis liver abscess Medical method microscopical months mucous membrane mucus obtained opium organisms parasite pathogenic patient perforation peritonitis Plate post-mortem present quinine rapidly rarely recent saline seen sigmoid sloughs sprue stage stained sterile stools submucous coat suppuration temperature tenderness tery tetragena thickening tion tropical liver abscess ulcers usually variety whilst
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Page 159 - under 10 years of age. Further, only 5-3 per cent, of the former and 4-4 per cent, of the latter were between 11 and 20, two-thirds of the natives being entered as 20, this being only their approximate age, for they are not very accurate in this respect. Over
Page 194 - Under 1 week . 1 to 2 weeks . 2 weeks to 1 month 1 to 2 months . Over 2 months Time doubtful Total. .... Percentage .... Multiple. 2 1 2 5 8-4 Left lobe. 2 2 1 2 7 11-9 Right lobe pointing
Page 238 - four or five, as in two cases. I have noticed that if an originally present leucocytosis completely disappears, little or no pus is usually obtained at a second aspiration, and
Page 238 - and an uninterrupted convalescence ensues. The continued presence of even a slight leucocytosis is generally an indication for repeating the aspiration. In the common
Page 148 - aged 28, admitted for fever of three weeks' duration, which persisted under quinine treatment, although no cause could be found for it. Bowels normal, both sides of the diaphragm moving well, as seen by the X-rays. Liver slightly enlarged, but not tender, although becoming larger. Leucocytosis was found by me both one week
Page 131 - doses morning and evening. In severe cases I frequently give a grain at a time (this being equivalent to 90 grains of ipecacuanha), and repeat it two, or even three, times a day, although this is not often necessary. Intravenously from a half to one grain may also be given at a time
Page 148 - weeks after admission, so the liver was explored for abscess with a negative result. Three days later, or fifty-three days after the fever commenced, the ipecacuanha treatment was commenced, and on the fourth day the temperature was normal, but slight low fever up to 100° F. recurred for several days more, after which convalescence set in.
Page 229 - liver abscess. If given in one of the ways described under the pre-suppurative stage of the disease it will cause very little trouble to the patient. For some time past this has been the routine treatment in the Calcutta hospitals, and I attribute not a little of the recent improvement in the results to this simple measure. One European patient had been operated
Page 149 - CASE 14.—Male, aged 24, admitted for irregular intermittent fever, not yielding to quinine, and with no obvious cause. As over 20,750 leucocytes were found the ipecacuanha treatment was again adopted with the happiest results, the fever finally ceasing two days later, and convalescence being quickly established, as in the preceding case.
Page 142 - recent times. Yet this case showed far less urgent signs of hepatitis when first admitted than the great majority of those which cleared up so readily under the ipecacuanha treatment. I venture to think that such misfortunes will become increasingly rare with the increasing use of the