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dysentery convalescents with a view to detecting the carriers of 

 E. histolytica or other protozoa. 



(14) If, however, it be decided to identify by microscopic 

 examination and to treat every healthy E. histolytica carrier 

 amongst any group of convalescents or healthy men it is well to 

 remember that after treatment it is unnecessary to keep all the 

 cases under microscopic control in order to see if relapse will occur, 

 for the results we have obtained show that the carrier is almost 

 certainly cured by a proper course of emetin unless there has been 

 a history of repeated attacks of dysentery. 



(15) Similarly men with flagellate infections unless clinically ill 

 should not be invalided from service. 



(16) As a result of inquiries we have made and the examination 

 of men who have returned from Gallipoli it appears to us that 

 amoabic dysentery was not as common on the Peninsula during the 

 summer months of 1915 as has sometimes been supposed. 



