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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 



Mustapha Camp he was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica. He gave no history of dysentery. 

 On the first examination there were present also infections of E. coli and I-cysts, but these were 

 not found two days later and they did not reappear during the time patient was under observa- 

 tion. He was given a course of emetin for 12 days (one grain injection each morning and 

 grain in keratin-coated tabloid at night). Patient was kept in bed and on milk diet during 

 the treatment. There was no vomiting. The E. histolytica infection disappeared and did not 

 recur during a control of one month, three weeks of which patient spent in the convalescent 

 camp, where he performed light duty. The emetin had no effect on the patient's temperature 

 or pulse-rate. During the second half of the period of observation there were present in 

 the stool on a few occasions cysts of tetramitus and there developed a large infection of 

 E. nana. 



CASE CARR, P., aged 33. Patient, who had served in South Africa, left England in April, 

 1916, and came direct to Egypt, where, on May 19, during the routine examination of men in 

 Mustapha Camp he was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica. There was no history of 

 previous dysentery. Patient was kept under observation till May 30, during which time he 

 continued to pass cysts and amoebae in very large numbers. On May 30, a ] 2-day course of 

 emetin was commenced (one grain injection each morning and | grain in keratin-coated 

 tabloid each evening). During treatment he was kept in bed on milk diet. There was no 

 vomiting. In spite of the magnitude of the infection there was complete disappearance of the 



