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of the marvellous cures attributed to certain remedies 

 can be accounted for in this way. I have repeatedly 

 observed cases diagnosed as amoebic dysentery upon 

 the demonstration of Entamaeba coli in the stools, 



TABLE I. 

 EXAMINATION OF PATIENTS FOR ENTAM<EBA COLI.* 



* This table includes only cases in which E. coli was found, in order to illustrate 

 the variety of conditions in which this parasite may be present. 



after a dose of salts, in which neither the clinical 

 history nor the symptoms corroborated the diagnosis. 

 A considerable proportion of the cases returned from 

 the Philippine Islands during 1900 and 1901, and 

 probably since then, diagnosed as amoebic dysentery, 



