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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 



CASE MAIN, aged 42. Patient, who had not been abroad before, left England on May 24, 

 1915, for the Peninsula, where he remained for six months (Cape Hellas). While there he 

 suffered from diarrhoea, but had no dysentery. He came to Alexandria and was found on 

 March 20, 1916, to be a carrier of E. histolytica in the routine examination of men in Mustapha 

 Camp. He was under observation till March 28, when a course of emetin by the mouth 

 (one grain a day for 12 days) was commenced. The E. histolytica did not disappear, so the 

 patient was given a course of emetin injections (one grain a day for 12 days) from April 14. 

 The E. histolytica cysts quickly disappeared, but recurred 10 days later. The emetin courses 

 had no effect on the temperature or pulse-rate. Trichomonas was also present, and an E. coli 

 infection appeared a few days after the patient went to the convalescent camp. During the 

 treatment the patient was not kept in bed and was given chicken diet. The emetin by the 

 mouth caused him to vomit on two occasions only. 



CASE SPIERS, D., aged (?). Patient, who had lived in Ceylon for some years, first suffered- 

 from dysentery in 1911. He was ill for 10 weeks and the disease was said to be of bacillary 



