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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 



CASE BENNETT, J., aged 47. Patient, who had not been abroad before, left England in 

 1915 for the Peninsula, where he remained from May to October. He was transferred to 

 Egypt, and on April 16, 1916, during the routine examination of cooks in Mustapha Camp was 

 found to be a carrier of E. histolytica. There was also an infection of E, coli, and later a 

 trichomonas infection appeared. There was no history of dysentery. Patient was kept 

 under observation till April 25, when a course of emetin injection was commenced, one grain 

 a day for 12 days. The E. histolytica cysts did not disappear from the stool, so from 

 May 9 onwards for 12 days patient was given daily by the mouth a grain of emetin in 

 keratin-coated tabloid. There was no vomiting, and the E. histolytica disappeared after the 

 second day of treatment. There was no recurrence of the infection during a control of one 

 month, three weeks of which patient spent in the convalescent camp, where he performed 

 light duty. While there a trichomonas infection manifested itself. During the course of 

 emetin patient was not kept in bed and was on chicken diet. The emetin had no effect on 

 patient's temperature or pulse-rate. 



