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A G BOWER

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PubMed1960

Tyhoid fever.

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PubMed1958

Laboratory diagnosis of typhoid fever with notes on treatment.

As indicated by a study of 41 cases of typhoid fever treated in three years, blood culture alone is often sufficient for the diagnosis of the disease if a large (30 cc.) specimen is used. Demonstration of the organism is the only completely diagnostic measure, but this was also achieved by the Widal reaction, by fecal or urine culture, or by aspirated bile culture, which in one case gave the only positive response. Chloramphenicol is the drug of choice in treating typhoid fever. Since only 25 per cent of patients develop immunity, immunizing injections should be started a week after therapy is discontinued.

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PubMed1956

Sulfisomidine in the treatment of pertussis.

Sulfisomidine and pertussis serum were used in the treatment of 21 patients with pertussis. Twenty of the patients were under six months of age and seven had bronchopneumonia. Therapeutic concentrations of the drug in the blood were obtained in 14 cases when it was given in dosage of 0.26 gm. per kilogram of body weight per 24 hours. The average stay in hospital was ten days. None of the patients died. Hematuria developed in one case but crystalluria was not concomitant and it abated promptly when fluid intake was increased.

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PubMed1954

Measles encephalitis; a successful method of treatment with typhoid vaccine.

During a 12-year period 50 patients with measles encephalitis were treated with typhoid vaccine-45 of them not until they were in a vegetative state. There were no deaths in the treated cases. All except one were clinically normal after treatment was ended. Late in the series it became apparent that after the clinical normal is attained and the electroencephalogram becomes normal, treatment should still be continued until the cortex has been "challenged" repeatedly and the electroencephalogram shown to remain normal. The "shock" element in the treatment with typhoid vaccine was prevented by anticipating and circumventing the unfavorable reactions to the vaccine. It may take 20 to 50 treatments or more with typhoid vaccine to return a patient to normality. Each individual is different and responds in a different period of time.

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