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cysts and amoebae after the first day of treatment and there was no recurrence during a control 

 of over one month, three weeks of which patient spent in the convalescent camp on light duty. 

 The emetin course did not affect the patient's temperature or pulse-rate. There was an infection 

 of E. nana, which was only observed before the treatment. 



CASE MILLER, G., aged 24. Patient, who had never been abroad before, left England on 

 June 7, 1915, and went direct to the Peninsula, where he remained five months. While there 

 he had a slight attack of dysentery, but had no emetin. He was invalided bo Malta for anaemia 

 and debility and thence was transferred to Alexandria in February, 1916. On May 19, during 

 the routine examination of the Eoyal Army Medical Corps Staff at Mustapha Camp, patient 

 was found to be a carrier of E. histolytica. He was kept under observation till May 30, when 

 a 12-day course of emetin was commenced (one grain injection in the morning and grain 

 in keratin-coated tabloid each night). During the course patient was kept in bed on milk 

 diet. He vomited on only one occasion. The E. histolytica infection disappeared after the 

 third day of treatment and did not recur 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 or pulse-rate. 



