The Calomel-Solid Food-Hot Compress Therapy of Bacillary Dysentery

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The Calomel-Solid Food-Hot Compress Therapy of bacillary dysentery, here reported, is based upon the experience of the present writer extending for a long time and consists of three principles, as the title indicates. As soon as a dysentery case is verified, solid food, which is selected from daily diet, is given, and then calomel in a large dose such as 1.0 to 3.0g. given, at the same time a hot compress is applied to the bowels, commonly on the left hypogastrium. The clinical symptoms soon apt to diminish; half a day to one day calomel stools passed, in which dysentery bacilli is found out. In subsequent one to two days all the symptoms disappear and no bacilli is detected, and stools have a normal appearance. The bacillary dysentery thus can be exterminated commonly within two to three days after the onset, provided the therapy be started as early as half a day to one day after onset. The earlier the better. And the trias of the therapy should be exactly kept. The recovery is so rapid, and no signs of intoxication, such as stomatitis, etc. No mortality in my recent experience extending for eight years at least. I am anxious to acknowledge exact data of recent outcome with sulfonamide and antibiotic drugs.