On the dysenteries of India : with a chapter on secondary streptococcal infections and sprue / by Hugh W.Acton and R.Knowles.

  • Acton, Hugh W. (Hugh William), 1883-1935.
Date:
1928
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Credit: On the dysenteries of India : with a chapter on secondary streptococcal infections and sprue / by Hugh W.Acton and R.Knowles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Calcium and parathyroid treatment : in chronic bacillary dysentery, 122 in sprue, 149 Carcinoma of rectum, 17 Carrier ; [see (a) Bacillary carrier ; (b) E. histoly¬ tica carrier] Carriers, identification of, in communities, 154 Case mortality rates, 8 Cell exudate : in amoebic dysentery, 48 in bacillary dysentery, 49 in balantidial dysentery, 52 Charcot-Leyden crystals, 52, 130, 136 Children, bacillary dysentery in, 95 Chilodon, in stools, 19 Cholera : mortality from, 4 simulating dysentery, 18 Choleraic dysentery, 29 Ohromatoid substance, 131 Chronic amoebiasis, 124 Chronic amoebic dysentery, 106 Chronic bacillary dysentery : diagnosis of, 116 pathology of, 110 prognosis in, 119 radioscopy in, 117 rectal irrigations in, 119 secondary infections in, 118 severe cases, 113 symptomatology, 111 treatment, 119 Colitis : bacterial flora in, 65 membranous, 18 ‘ Collosal ’ kaolin, 94 Conessine, 104 Conradi-Drigalski medium, 71 use for streptococci, 136 Cultivation : of Balantidium coli, 63 of dysentery bacilli, 72 of Entamoeba histolytica, 53 Culture media : Conradi-Drigalski, 71 Endo’s, 71 for Balantidium coli, 63 for Entamoeba histolytica, 58 for streptococci, 136 McConkey’s, 71 Sabouraud’s agar, 74 Cyst : of Endolimax nana, 136 of E. histolytica, cultivation of, 80 Cytodiagnosis, 53 Deeks’ bismuth treatment, 100 Diagnosis : amoebic dysentery, 45 bacillary carrier, 116 bacillary dysentery, 45, 72 chronic bacillary dysentery, 116 E. histolytica carrier, 129 laboratory, 45 serological, S3 sigmoidoscopic, 43 sprue, 148 Diarrhoea v. dysentery incidence, 7 Dientamoeba fragilis, 140 Diet : in amoebic dysentery, 101 in bacillary dysentery, 90 in pernicious anaemia, 152 in sprue, 149 Discomyces asteroides, 129 Dog, possible role in amoebiasis, 32 Dosage of vaccines, 87 Dreyer’s agglutination method, 78 Dudgeon’s solution, 11S ‘ Dyak’s hair ’ sloughs, 37 Dysenteries, age incidence of, 16 Dysentery : and poverty, 8 and rainfall, 13 and social strata, 8 annual mortality from, 7 as complication of colitis, 20 as terminal infection, 7 case mortality rate, 8 causes of, in India, 19, 25 definition of, 16 diagnosis of, 43 hospital admissions and deaths, 2 in British Army, 1 incidence of, 6 index, 155 in Indian Army, 1 in infants, 16 in jails, 1 laboratory examination of stools in, 45 mixed infections, 41 morbidity due to, 1