Amoebic or tropical dysentery : its complications and treatment.

  • Brown, William Carnegie, 1859-1916.
Date:
1910
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    The next paper of note was a clinical and pathological review of thirty-five cases of amoebic dysentery—all of them originating in the Southern United States—which was published81 by Professor H. F. Harris, of the Jefferson Medical College. Harris's descrip- tion of the symptoms, morbid anatomy and distinctive character- istics of the disease corresponds closely with the accounts of Osler, and Councilman and Lafleur ; and his opinions as to its specific nature are in accord with those of most other American authorities. During the next few years a considerable number of clinical and pathological observations, generally corroborative of the theory of pathogenicity, were recorded from various parts of the world ; but, with the exception of a detailed description of the disease32 by JuRGENS, which appeared in 1902, no important addition was made to the literature of amoebic dysentery until the publication of Fritz Schaudinn's memoir,33 Die parasitaren Amoben des mensch- lichen Darmkanals. The incidents which surround Schaudinn's work during his short stay on the shores of the Adriatic are full of interest. Pending the completion of the Institute of Protozoology in Berlin, of which he had been appointed first director, he was placed in charge of the zoological station at Rovigno, where he immediately under- took an extended series of researches into the life-history and biological relations of the parasites of malaria and dysentery. In the neighbouring villages both diseases were endemic, and very prevalent; and with the abundance of clinical material which was thus continuously at his disposal, SCHAUDINN was able to 31 Harris, Amoebic Dysentery, Amer.Journ. of Med. Science, 1898, cxv., 384. See also Experim. bei erzeugte Dysenterie, Virchow's Archives, 1901. 33 Jurgens, Zur Kentniss der Darmamoben und der Amoben-Enteritis. Veroffentlichen aus dem Gebiete des Militar-Sanitdiswesen, H. 20, p. 110. Berlin : Hirschwald, 1902. 33 F. Schaudinn, Arbeitenaus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheiisamte, 1903.