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The Control of Dysentery by Prophylactic Inoculation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

K. C. L. Paddle*
Affiliation:
Botleys Park Colony (Surrey C.C.); late Deputy Medical Superintendent Caterham Hospital (L.C.C.)

Extract

The term “dysentery” in mental hospitals may be regarded as applicable to a clinical entity characterized by symptoms of abdominal pain, rise of temperature and passage of blood and mucus. The causative organisms are various, but that occurring most frequently and persistently is the Bacillus dysenteriæ of Flexner. This paper deals exclusively with this type of asylum dysentery.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1938 

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