Reprints of articles contributed to medical journals, 1895-1909 / by John D. Gimlette.

  • Gimlette, John D. (John Desmond), 1867-1934
Date:
1911
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Credit: Reprints of articles contributed to medical journals, 1895-1909 / by John D. Gimlette. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forty inhabitants, fourteen or fifteen children are ill with puru mata kerbau. Examination of blood smears taken from some of them, as well as from the patient (in the forenoon), proved to be negative. Several smear preparations made from the sores on June 13th, and again on the 21st, were stained by the Romanowsky and other methods, but nothing dis- tinctive was found by me under the microscope beyond a number of round granular cells which stained readily with basic dyes. There were no large cells and micrococcus-like bodies which have recently been described by Surgeon-Captain James [10], Dr. Homer Wright [17], and others, as occurring in tropical ulcer or Delhi sore. This child was treated by the local application of zinc and mercurial ointments mixed together, and when last seen on July 24th, 1905, the sores, with the exception of the puru ibu, had nearly all healed. Case 2. Puru in a Chinese.—Hap Hoy, a mining coolie, native place Hong Kong, married, no children, was admitted into the Duff Development Company’s Native Hospital at Kuala Lebir, Kelantan, on April 1st, 1905. Family History.—Eather died of some chest com- plaint about 50 ; mother alive and well; no brothers ; one sister in good health. Has never seen any cases like his own among friends or relatives in China. Previous History.—Emigrated from China eleven years ago, and, with the exception of malarial fever, has always been in good health. Stayed in Singapore for five years, was in Pahang for two years, and at Tomoh for four years, when he got ill and went from there to Kelantan. He never had syphilis nor gonorrhoea; has not had sexual con- nection for more than twenty months ; has never had a sore on the penis before. Is accustomed to take a little samshu (Chinese spirit), also chandu (opium prepared for the pipe). States that he knows two fellow-countrymen at