AMCEB.E OF THE INTESTINAL TRACT. 83 

 OCCURRENCE or ENTAMCEBA COLI IN DISEASES 



OTHER THAN DYSENTERY. As Would be expected, 



this species of amoebse not only occurs in health, but 

 also in many patients suffering from diseases other 

 than dysentery. Any condition which leads to the 

 production of acute or chronic diarrhoea, such as 

 acute or chronic enteritis, typhoid fever, or cholera, 

 is often accompanied by the appearance of this para- 

 site in the feces. Even in conditions in which lesions 

 are not present in the intestine this parasite is fre- 

 quently observed in the feces following the adminis- 

 tration of a cathartic. Cunningham found amoebae 

 in the intestinal contents of cholera cases; Celli and 

 Fiocca in infants suffering from intestinal inflamma- 

 tion; Berndt in cases of typhoid fever; Normand in 

 chronic colitis; Massiutin in the feces of 5 cases suf- 

 fering with intestinal catarrh, typhoid fever, and 

 diarrhoea; Grassi in diarrhoea; Perroncito in chronic 

 diarrhoea; Babes in cases of hepatitis; Casagrandi 

 and Barbagallo in various diseases, as well as Kruse 

 and Pasquale, Quincke and Roos, Kartulis, Shuberg, 

 Gros, and Ijima. 



In my own observations I have not confined my- 

 self to the examination of feces of patients suffer- 

 ing from diarrhoea, but have examined the excreta in 

 all cases, whatever the diagnosis. Over 250 such cases 

 have been examined of which 49 per cent, showed 



