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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 



CASE CHERILL, W., aged 20. Patient, who had not been abroad before, left England in 

 August, 1915, for the Peninsula, where he remained four months. He was transferred to Egypt 

 in December, where on April 22, 1916, he was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica during 

 the routine examination of men in Mustapha Camp. There were also infections of E. coli 

 and I-cysts and an irregular infection of E. nana and lamblia. There was no history of 

 dysentery. Patient was kept under observation till May 2, when a course of emetin was 

 commenced (one grain injection in the morning and \ grain in keratin-coated tabloid at night 

 for 12 days). Patient, who was kept in bed and given milk diet, vomited only once on the 

 third night of treatment. All the infections disappeared and none recurred during a control of 

 over one month except the E. coli and E. nana. The last three weeks of control patient spent 

 in the convalescent camp where he performed light duty. The emetin had no effect on the 

 patient's temperature or pulse-rate. 



CASE WING, A., aged 22. Patient, who had never been abroad before, served in France 

 from June to December, 1915. He was then transferred to Egypt, where he arrived on January 5, 

 1916. On April 26 patient was admitted to hospital with diarrhoea. The stool was found 

 to consist of thick tenacious mucus mixed with faecal matter, but without blood. Microscopically 

 the mucus was impregnated with myriads of free lamblia, while the faecal matter showed 

 numerous free and encysted forms as well as small free amoebae. The next day patient passed 



