Alleged cure for dysentery discovered by Mr George A White
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Correspondence regarding White's alleged cure, using the sesamum indicum. Includes instructions for preparing the treatment, and copy testimonies forwarded by White. Order of the Governor General in Council that the treatment be trialled.
G A White's recommendation of the teel [til] plant as a cure for dysentry
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Concerning G A White's recommendation of Sesamum Orientale [Sesamum Indicum] - the common teel [til] plant - as a cure for dysentery. Contains details of trials at the Mayo Native Hospital Calcutta and Calcutta Medical College; case descriptions; and comparisons with other treatments.
A specific for diarrhoea, dysentery, spasmodic pains of the bowels, and asiatic cholera; and the use of coal or carbon as articles of animal nutrition
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pp 1421-27. Letters from Professor H W Adams of Philidelphia: (1) Provides details of a specific for the cure of diarrhoea, dysentery, spasmodic pains of the bowels and asiatic cholera, with instructions for treatment. (2) Describes his experiments with using coal and carbon as a source of fo...
Results of trials with Dr H W Adams' specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea
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pp 521-23. Letters summarizing the results of trials with Dr H W Adam's specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea. Dr Adams' suggested coal and carbon diet was not tested.
Reports on the experiments made with Professor Flexnor's anti-dysenteric sera in the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta, and in the Jamsetjee JeeJeebhoy Hospital, Bombay
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pp 501-10. Reports on the trials of the Shiga, Haris and Shiga-Kruse-Harris anti-dysentery serums, supplied by Professor Flexnor.