ACUTE TONSILLITIS TREATED

WITH

SOLUSEPT ASINE By J. C. BHATTACHARJEE, l.m.p. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Hospital, Siligun The patient 60 years.

was

a

female

aged

about

History.?She felt pain in the throat the previous day and had had no sleep at night. The conditio11 became aggravated so quickly that by the morning

unable to swallow and any attempt at swallowing water was followed by ejaculation through th" nostrils. She had a rise of temperature since the star of the pain. On examination the patient could hardly open hpl mouth and examination of throat, done with difficulty, revealed both tonsils inflamed and to such an extent as to overlap each other causing occlusion of the throat. The right one was bigger tha11 the left, but both were covered by scattered whn? was

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patches. The patient was advised hot application externa]'} and was given 10 c.cm. of 10 per cent solusepta&in' (May and Baker) intramuscularly. ^ The next morning, the condition was the same an another 10 c.cm. of soluseptasine was injected. In '^ evening the temperature came down and the pat)C> was able to take sips of glucose water occasionally^ The patient was much better the next morning, w extent. she was able to open her mouth to some she could swallow liquid, she was given two table : of proseptasine (May and Baker) (1.0 gm.) crush ^ .

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emulsified in water to be taken three time?, this was continued two days more and n recovery was uneventful.

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