xiii, b, 5 Lantin: Serum in Bacillary Dysentery 



Table II. — Serum intramuscularly alone. 



263 



Case. 



Name. 



Age. 



Sex. 



Result. 



Culture. 



6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 , 10 

 11 



G. S. 



E. R. 

 C. E. 



F. B. 

 A. L. 



L. 



22 

 22 

 42 

 22 

 21 

 26 



F 

 F 



M 

 F 

 F 

 M 





+ 



+ 

 No media. 



Do. 



_ 



do 



do 







do 



..do 



Table III. — Serum intramuscularly and per rectum. 



Case. 



Name. 



Age. 



Sex. 



Result. 



Culture. | 



12 

 13 

 14 



E.C. 



E. A. 

 J. M. 



19 

 27 

 24 



M 

 M 

 M 





+ ' 

 + (Shiga) 



+ 



do 1 



do 





Table IV. — Serum per rectum alone. 



Case. 



Name. 



Age. 



Sex. 



Result. 



Culture. 



15 



16 



17 



S. T. 

 G. R. 

 G. R. 



45 

 14 

 16 



M 

 F 



M 





+ 

 + (Flexner) 



do 



do 





Table V. — Serum intravenously alone. 



1 Case. 



Name. 



Age. 



Sex. 



Result. 



Culture. 



Remarks. 



18 

 19 

 20 



E. B. 

 A.M. 

 Z. C. 



20 

 30 

 37 



F 



M 

 M 





Shiga + 



1 day before treatment. 

 10 days before treatment. 

 Do. 



do 



do 





Table I is intended to show the cases in which drug therapy 

 was combined with serum treatment. With the exception of a 

 single case that died, having been admitted to the hospital in 

 a condition of collapse at the end of sixteen days of sickness, 

 all the other cases were of moderate severity. The average 

 duration of treatment, excluding one case that succumbed, was 

 four and one-half days. 



Table II shows the cases treated intramuscularly with serum 

 alone. In this group one case (8) was severe, the rest were 

 only moderately so. The average duration of treatment was 

 four days. 



Table III presents cases treated with serum intramuscularly 

 and per rectum. These were all severe, a fact which very likely 



