. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. 377 Dale. 1916 /•:. hist. cysts September. Case 163. 'I'his patient went to Egypt in December, 1914. Early in the following year he contracted dvsenterv. The acute stage lasted a fortnight, with tlie passage of twenty or more stools a day. The patient remained in bed, received castor oil and gradually got better. Tn May, 1915, he contracted enteric and was admitted to a hospital in Alexandria. While there a liver abscess was discovered, and tlie patient coughed much blood, pus and mucus. Emetine injections were administered to the exte
. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. 377 Dale. 1916 /•:. hist. cysts September. Case 163. 'I'his patient went to Egypt in December, 1914. Early in the following year he contracted dvsenterv. The acute stage lasted a fortnight, with tlie passage of twenty or more stools a day. The patient remained in bed, received castor oil and gradually got better. Tn May, 1915, he contracted enteric and was admitted to a hospital in Alexandria. While there a liver abscess was discovered, and tlie patient coughed much blood, pus and mucus. Emetine injections were administered to the extent of 12 grains. 'Towards the end of September, 1916, he arrived in England as a convalescent, and after remaining in liospital here a very short time, he was sent to a convalescent camp. Stools were examined only three times, and on the second examination a fair number of E. Iiistolyticd cysts were found, thus showing that the patient was still a carrier. This case is not strictly a ' non-dysenteric,' but it is included in the present report, since the patient was regarded as cured when he left Egypt, and since he was not sent to a dysentery hospital in th(^ usual way for dysenteries. C.\SE 168. The patient was in South Africa from 1899-1902, and during that time had no illness. In July, 1915, he left England for the Eastern Mediter- ranean, and while in the Balkans he suffered from frequent attacks of diarrhoea. Tliese lasted a few days at a time, wi^h seven or eight motions a day, but the patient had no treatment. He contracted malaria and in September, 1916, was invalided home. The third examination of his stools showed the presence of E. histolytica, and on two successive examinations cysts were again found. Seventeen subsequent examinations were made over a period of three weeks, all of which were negative. The patient had a fortnight's treatment with ' alcresta ipecac' tablets, ten bemg given every da\-. This amounts to iQ'S grains of emetine (one tablet contains O'1 5
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