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TABLE VI.

Results of treatment with Autogenous Vaccines in 1911.

Number of cases treated.	Doses used.	Recovered.	Died.
Shiga type—3 ... ...	20 millions	2	1
	50 millions
	100 millions
	at intervals of 6 days.
Flexner type—6 ... ...	200 millions	4	2
	500 millions
	1,000 millions
	at intervals of 6 days.

TABLE VII.

Results of treatment with Polyvalent Vaccines (Shiga-Flexner Asylum
strains) in 1911.

Number treated.	Dosage.	Recovered.	Died.
28	20 millions	15	13
	50 millions
	100 millions

TABLE VIII.

Results of Emetin treatment.

Name.	Race.	Total emetin given.	Day of disease, emetin treatment begun.	Days disease persisted afterwards.	Result.	Remarks.
P. N. ...	Ind. ...	1 grain ...	5th ... ...	36, includ- ing two relapses.	R	Flexner bacillus isolated. Also treated with autogenous vaccine. Had two relapses.
V. M. ...	„ ...	No record.	No record ...	7	R	Also treated with poly, vaccine, in small doses.
R.C. ...	„ ...	3 grains ...	2nd ... ...	13	R	Flexner bacillus isolated. Also treated with autogenous vaccine.
J. P. ...	Eur. ...	No record.	2nd ... ...	4	R	A case of amœbic dysentery.
N.H. ...	Ind. ...	5 grains ...	60th ... ...	130	Still in hospital.	Ankylostome ova numerous. How a typical case of sprue. Thymol treatment on several occasions.
V.D.K. ...	„ ...	4 „ ...	13th ... ...	14	R	Shiga bacillus isolated.
B. L. ...	„ ...	No record.	24th ... ...	Died 5 days afterwards.		Shiga bacillus isotated. Balantidium coli present.
A. C. ...	„ ...	No record.	...	Died 6 days after ?		Nothing found in stools.
S. C. ...	„ ...	1 grain ...	5th ... ...	6	R	Shiga bacillus isolated.
T. Y. ...	„ ...	1 „ ...	6th ... ...	Died 7 days afterwards.		Flexner bacillus isolated. Treated with Kasauli serum.
Z. A. ...	„ ...	1 „ ...	4tn ... ...	9	R	Flexner bacillus isolated. Treated with Kasauli serum.
V.L. ...	„ ...	2 grains ...	2nd ... ...	10	R	Nothing found in stools.
R.L. ...	„ ...	2½ „ ...	9th ... ...	22	Still in hospital.	A bad case of ankylostomiasis just admitted to the asylums from Natal. Dysenteric symptoms also present.
D. ...	„ ...	4 „ ...	4th ... ...	5	R	Amœba hystolitica abundant. Amœ bic dysentery. Singapore case.
A. M. ...	„ ...	2½ „ ...	9th ... ...	4	R	Nothing found in stools.
V.N.R. ...	„ ...	5 „ ...	3rd ... ...	6	R	Nothing found in stools.
S. ...	„ ...	2½ „ ...	6th ... ...	12	R	Shiga bacillus isolated.
N.P ...	„ ...	4½ „ ...	3rd ... ...	8	R	Nothing found in stools.
R. ...	„ ...	5 „ ...	3rd ... ...	12	R	Nothing found in stools.
B.R. ...	„ ...	2½ „ ...	6th ... ...	10	R	Flexner isolated, after which he was treated with serum.

All the above cases received castor oil treatment in addition.