By Everard L. Napier, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Lond.). In charge Kala-azar research, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. Second edition. 185 pages of text with 15 charts in the text, 18 plates, and an appendix of references to literature, author index and subject index. Oxford University Press. London, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, 1927
1.Intravenous inoculation of white mice with Histoplasma capsulatum is a satisfactory method for the study of the disease in animals, and may be used in studying the chemotherapeutic effect of drugs.
2.The drugs sodium iodide, neostam, fuadin, sulfanilamide, proflavin, thymol, B-9 and sodium propionate were ineffective in the treatment of histoplasmosis in white mice, according to our criteria.
Author Notes
Fellow in the division of Graduate Study, Medical College of Virginia, School of Dentistry.