Annual report / Department of Public Health, Research Institute and Endemic Diseases Hospital.

  • Egypt. Maá¹£laḥat al-á¹¢iḥḥah al-Ê»UmÅ«mÄ«yah. Research Institute and Endemic Diseases Hospital.
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[1932]
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Credit: Annual report / Department of Public Health, Research Institute and Endemic Diseases Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section 2.—Clinical and Experimental Pathology Section This Section started in July 1932. A special room was arranged for embedding, section cutting and staining. A Laboratory Assistant was especially trained for this work and all solutions and stains prepared. Material obtained up till now has been mainly from experimental animals. There is a project for establishing a Post-Mortem room. Another Laboratory Assistant was trained for obtaining blood specimens from patients and animals, staining and preparing material for exmination. This Section is engaged in carrying out investigations, clinical and therapeutic, on hospital patients (inpatients and out-patients), as well as on experimental animals. In addition to definite problems taken for continuous detailed study, every inpatient is thoroughly investigated both from the Clinical and Laboratory points of view. The main problems under study in this Section since July 1932 are 1. —Helminthic Anaemias :— Incidence, types, mechanism of production and treatment —these are discussed in the Clinical Report. In addition, attempts at its experimental production by heavily infecting dogs with Ancylostoma caninum and monkeys with Schistosoma mansoni for long periods with repeated blood examinations, are also carried out. 2. — Gastric Functions in Helminthic Infections This work is carried out in combination with the Biochemical Section. Clinical study of gastric symptoms and signs, fractional test meals and X-rays in some cases, are carried out in various helminthic infections before and after expulsion of parasites. It is intended to study the role played by these parasites in disturbing gastric functions. Data will be published later. 3. —Action of Fouadin on :— (a) Liver.—(Together with the Biochemical Section). See Clinical Report. (b) Organic Heart Disease.—(See Clinical Report). (c) Blood Pictures.—(See Clinical Report). 4. —Treatment of Malaria by Atebrine.—(See Clinical Report). 5. —Post Bilharzial Cystitis :— Role of bacteria, cystoscopic picture and therapeutical trials of drugs and ketogenic diet are carried out. (See Clinical Report). Other Clinical, haematological and therapeutic studies on Pellagra, Filariasis, Amoebic Dysentery, are also carried out as the supply of cases permit until sufficient data are available for publication. Experimental Problems 6. —Effect of Thorotrast on the Functions of the Reticulo-Endothelial System (Continuation of the work started in the Hamburg Tropical Institute). This is a drug used for Hepatosplenography. Its effect is tried before attempt at its use in Tropical Splenomegaly. 7. —Effect of Experimental Bilharzia Infection on the Liver and Spleen of White Rats :— (a) On Histological Structure.—Livers and Spleens of infected rats with one sex and mixed sex infection are obtained at different intervals.