APPENDIX 



197 



Days 



33 

 35 

 37 

 39 

 41 

 43 

 45 

 47 

 49 

 51 



Treatment 



FINDINGS 



Trich. 



Stool 



B.sf. 

 B.uf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 

 B.sf. 



CASE HYDE, aged 20. Patient left England in September, 1915, and went direct to the 

 Peninsula, where he remained five weeks. He was wounded and invalided to Egypt. On 

 April 25, 1916, during the routine examination of men in Mustapha Camp he was found to be a 

 carrier of E. histolytica. He had also infection of trichomonas and later tetramitus and 

 E. nana. There was no history of dysentery. Patient was kept under observation till 

 May 3, when a 12-day course of emetin was commenced (one grain injection in the morning 

 and grain in keratin-coated tabloid by the mouth each night). During treatment patient 

 was kept in bed on milk diet. Patient vomited on five occasions after taking the emetin. 

 The E. histolytica cysts vanished from the stool after the first dose and did not recur 

 during a control of over one month, three weeks of which patient spent iii the convalescent 

 camp, where he performed light duty. The course of emetin produced no change in the 

 temperature or pulse-rate. There developed, however, a stomatitis with aphthae on the tonsils, 

 lips and tongue. This persisted during the treatment but disappeared soon after. 



