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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 



CASE KITSON, aged 22. Patient, who had not been abroad before, left England in April, 

 1915, for the Peninsula, where he remained 4 months. He was transferred to Egypt in 

 September, 1915, and on April 22, 1916, was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica during 

 the routine examination of men in Mustapha Camp. He was kept under observation till 

 April 26, when a course of emetin injections was commenced (one grain a day for 12 days). 

 The E. histolytica infection quickly disappeared, and did not recur during a control of one 

 month, which patient spent in the convalescent camp on light duty. During treatment he was 

 not kept in bed, and was on chicken diet. The emetin had no effect on the patient's tempera- 

 ture or pulse-rate. An accompanying E. coli infection was not abolished by the treatment. 

 There had been no history of dysentery. 





CASE KNIGHT, aged 21. Patient, who had been in India a year previously, left England on 

 October 8, 1915, and was on the Peninsula for two months before being transferred to Egypt 

 Patient, who had never had dysentery, was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica on April 17, 

 1916, during the routine examination of men in Mustapha Camp. He was kept under 

 observation till April 25, when a course of emetin injections (one grain a day for 12 days) 

 was commenced. The E. histolytica cysts had disappeared from the stool two days before 

 treatment was commenced, but on the first day of treatment a small number of free entamoebae 

 were present. There was no recurrence of the infection during a control of one month, the 

 greater part of which patient spent in the convalescent camp, where he performed light duty. 

 The course of emetin had no effect on the pulse-rate, but there was a rise in temperature to 

 100 on two successive days. During treatment patient was not kept in bed and was on 

 chicken diet. 



