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CASE WEBBER, S., aged 32. Patient, who had never been abroad before, left England in 



tjune, 1915. He went direct to the Peninsula, where he stayed seven weeks, during which 



[time he had a short attack of dysentery for which he was given injections of emetin (dose?/ 



fin September he came to Egypt, where he was employed as cook. On April 13, 1916, during 



the routine examination of cooks at Sidi Bishr Camp he was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica. 



He had also an infection of E. coli and was later found to have coccidia (isospora). From April 25, 



I patient was given a 12-day course of emetin injections (one grain a day). The patient was 



not kept in bed and was on chicken diet. The cysts of E. histolytica disappeared from the stool 



but recurred soon after. The coccidia infection was also unaffected by the treatment. Accordingly 



[patient was given a second 12-day course of emetin from May 15 (one grain injection each 



[morning and grain in keratin-coated tabloid by the mouth each night). He was kept in 



bed on milk diet. He vomited on only one occasion. The E. histolytica and the coccidia both 



disappeared from the stool and did not recur during a control of one month, the greater part of 



which patient spent in the convalescent camp on light duty, where he seemed to pick up an 



\E. nana infection. Neither the temperature nor the pulse-rate were in any way effected by the 



two courses of emetin. There were no symptoms which could be attributed to the coccidia, for 



though the patient had also an E. histolytica infection he was not ill in any way. 



