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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 



CASE SARGEANT, A., aged 22. Patient, who had not been abroad before, left England in 

 June, 1915, and was four months on the Peninsula. He was then transferred to Egypt, where, 

 on April 26, during the routine examination of men in Mustapha Camp, he was found to be a 

 carrier of E. histolytica. There was also an infection of E. coli, tetramitus, and lamblia, while 

 later on an infection of E. nana appeared. There was no history of dysentery. Patient 

 was kept under observation till May 2, when a course of emetin for 12 days was commenced 

 (one grain injection each 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 two 

 occasions after taking the tabloid. All the infections disappeared during the treatment, but the 

 tetramitus and E. coli infections recurred. There was no recurrence of the E. histolytica 

 infection during a control of over one month, three weeks of which patient spent in the 

 convalescent camp on light duty. The emetin had no effect on patient's temperature, but the 

 pulse-rate was slightly increased towards the end of and after the course of treatment. 



