Observations in four cases of chronic dysentery non-amebic in nature / by Anthony Bassler.

  • Bassler, Anthony, 1874-
Date:
1911
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    CASES OF CHRONIC DYSENTERY NON- AMEBIC IN NATURE. By ANTHONY BASSLER, M.D., NEW YORK. VISITING GASTROENTEROLOGIST TO THE PEOPLES HOSPITAL AND CHIEF GASTROENTEROLOGIST TO THE GERMAN POLIKLINIK. Dysentery has been divided into the acute and chronic forms; the acute due to infections by the Shiga bacilli or the allied strains identified by Flex- ner, Kruse, Park and Hiss, and the chronic to the ameba and perhaps to less known members of the colon group than the first- mentioned ones. In the temperate climates chronic infections of the lower intestinal tract are met with in adults in which the causative organisms are neither the ameba nor those classed in the acute forms of dysentery— they being the. true dysentery bacilli and the man- nite-fermenting forms. It is very probable that most of these cases are today being described under the clinical terms of “chronic colitis” and “ulcerat- ing” or “follicular colitis, “chronic diarrhea,” and otherwise, the bacterial etiological connection of which has received but scant attention. The bac- terial observations on four of such cases are re- ported here, the history of only one being presented in full. Case i.—Dentist; 31 years; father died of apo- plexy at 65, mother living; habits good. Previous Copyright, William Wood & Company.