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to the place of lodgment of the irritating matter, then the Bacillus Shiga might be the common cause sought

200 THE JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. Prescriptions. Diaxrre@a Mixture witHout Opium. for. Bz ‘Tr. camphor e ae a oS oe H4@MOGLOBINURIA, See page 194.

or: capsici ahs as as v Oss. Leprosy, see page 194, Tr. lavandul. comp. oh a2 : i ine : Spts. vin. gal. qs. ad . 3ij. Malaria.

M.S.: Teaspoonful every two or three hours. —REX.

TREATMENT OF CHRONIC SuMMER DIARRH@A. R. Bismuthi subgallati. . gr. xxiv.—xxvl,

Pulv. opii gr. ss. Pepsin. pulv. : - gr. vi.—xij. M. Trit. in pulv. No. xii. S.: One every four hours,

alternating with the following :— kK. Hydrarg. chlor. mitis gr. ss. Cerii oxalat. se ye er. ij. Sacchar. alb. Ls eC: 5 M. Trit. in pulv. No. - xii. §.: One every four hours. —WMed.. Times and Hosp. Gazette, May 2nd, 1903. eS Aecent and Current Piterature.

A tabulated list of recent publications and articles bearing on tropical diseases is given below. To readers interested in any branch of tropical literature mentioned in these lists the Editors of the JouRNAL or TRopicaL Mepicine will be pleased, when possible, to send, on application, the medical journals in which the articles appear. Ankylostomiasis.

PREVALENCE OF ANKYLOSTOMA IN THE UNITED Stares.—At the meeting of the American Medical Asso- ciation, May 5th, 1903, Dr. A. J. Smith described the distribution of uncinariasis in the United States. He found eight persons suffering from the disease out of eighty-eight supposed healthy persons examined in Texas. He also compared the Uncinarius duodenalis (man) and the U. stenocephala (dog), and drew atten- tion to the distribution of the two worms in the same localities.

Beri-beri.

At the meeting of the Medical Association at Tokio, held at the end of last year, Dr. Mitsuda presented an interesting paper on kakké. In one case of the disease he observed facial paralysis, and in another paralysis of the abdominal museles and of the bladder was present. In 66 per cent. of kakké patients traces of albumen were found in the urine, and casts were present in the urine in 80 per cent.

Diarrhcea.

BaciLius SHica IN AN Eprpemic or Diarruaa, by Dr. Strong. Boston Medical Journal, 1903.—Dr. Strong reports an epidemic of diarrhoea in which ileocolitis was a common feature, and positive evidence demonstrated the fact that in four such cases the Bacillus Shiga was

present. The author suggests that there must have been a common cause to account for the unusually large number of cases, and concludes by pointing out that if it is correct to infer that some simple diarrhceas

passed into infectious diarrhoea, and that the infectious diarrhosas were either fermental or ileovolitis, according

Mosquitors AND Manarra.—R. L. Roy, in Indian Engineering, May 9th, 1903, remarks that : My experi- ence inclines me to favour the mosquito theory. It is well known that gunpowder is manufactured at Ishapur, a station on the E. B. 8. R. Before this manufacture was started the general health of the place was good, but since it has been established the public health is much affected, chiefly by fever. The anahar plant (Cystisus cajan) is one of the principal ingredients in the manulacture of gunpowder. ‘This is steeped in the big khal at Ishapur, and during the fermenting stage mosquitoes are generated very plentifully. Ishapur has ~ in consequence been decimated by malarious fevers and the deaths are traced mostly to mosquito poison,

Plague.

THE Mopre or Entry or Piacue INrecTIoN INTO THE Human Bopy, by Lieut.-Col. H. E. Deane, R.A.M.C. (late Special Plague Med. Off., Calcutta). The Indian Medical Gazette, March, 1903.—The author, in an exhaustive and scientific paper on plague, gives his experience as to the manner and mode in which the plague bacillus gains entrance into the human organism, and he summarises the conclusions he has arrived at as follows: When abrasions are found in a patient suffering from plague, there is an entire absence of any sign to render it probable that they were the points of inoculation.

In a comparatively small proportion of plague cases skin lesions are observed, which, when appearing early in the course of the disease, are assumed to be points of entry of the virus; but the evidence of such a mode of infection is inconclusive, and the skin manifestations can be more satisfactorily accounted for by considering them as evidence of general blood infection.

Plague is contracted by inhalation of the virus, and the different symptoms presented by different patients depend on the individual constitution mostly, but may partly be due to the quantity of virus absorbed. Infee: tion through the respiratory organs is borne out by the | course taken by the disease, and its virulence in damp | dark places, void of ventilation.

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