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HUMAN INTESTINAL PROTOZOA IN THE NEAR EAST 





CASE GREENWOOD, H., aged 19. Patient, who had never been abroad before, left England 

 in October, 1915, and went direct to the Peninsula. He remained there till December, when 

 he was transferred to Mudros. In February, 1916, he came to Egypt. At Suez, in May, he 

 had his first attack of dysentery, which lasted 18 days. He was not given emetin. He was 

 sent to convalescent camp, where he again had dysentery and was admitted to hospital in 

 Alexandria on June 23, where he was found to be passing blood and mucus stools containing 

 free amoebae with included red blood corpuscles. From June 26 onwards he was given a 

 12-day course of emetin (one grain injection each morning and ^ grain in keratin-coated tabloid 

 by the mouth at night). There was no vomiting. The E. histolytica disappeared after the 

 second day of treatment but reappeared before the course was completed, when cysts of 

 E. histolytica were found for the first time. The infection again disappeared but recurred again 

 a fortnight later. During the treatment the patient was kept in bed on milk diet. There was 

 no change in the temperature or pulse-rate during the emetin course. 



CASE JACKSON, H., aged 24. Patient, who had previously served in India (five years) left 

 England in September, 1915, and went direct to the Peninsula, where he remained till he was 

 sent to Malta on account of dysentery, which persisted off and on till February, 1916. On 



