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AMOEBIASIS: ITS ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER DISEASES, 
ITS COMPLICATIONS, AND ITS AFTER EFFECTS.! 
By W. E. Musarave. 
(From the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science.) 
In this paper the more established facts concerning this subject will 
briefly be described, attention will be paid to points more or less neglected 
in previous publications and finally, certain new observations tending to 
elucidate some of the problems will be added. The subject may be 
outlined under the following headings: 
I, Diseases and conditions accidentally associated with amebiasis 
which do not modify the course of either infection. 
II. Diseases of different etiology in which the association produces 
decided modifications in one or both. 
III. Direct complications. 
(a) Of ameebic origin. 
(6) Of other parasitic or of bacterial origin. 
IV. After effects of amcebic diseases. 
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Complete discussion of the first heading would practically include the 
whole subject of tropical medicine, because amebiasis in the Tropics is 
such a very common affection that almost every other disease has, at dif- 
ferent times, been found associated with it. 
Pregnancy, because of its frequent association with ameebiasis in fe- 
males, is the only condition which will receive notice in this connection. 
Local treatment of the dysentery often increases the vomiting of preg- 
nancy, but the danger of abortion from this cause is even less than that 
to which the untreated ameebiasis itself gives rise. Experience has taught 
us to give pregnant patients suffering from ameebic colitis the same 
thorough irrigations which are with confidence applied in other non- 
pregnant cases afflicted with this disease. 
*Read March 3, 1906, at the third annual meeting of the Philippine Islands 
Medical Association. 
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