Chloromycetin in the Treatment of Typhoid Fever Fourteen Cases Treated in the Middle East

The Treatment of Enteric Fever

“…The effect of chloramphenicol on typhoid fever has been described thus (Cook and Marmion, 1949): “Clinically speaking, the effect … seems to be to arrest the disease at whatever stage it has reached, and to sterilize the blood at the same time; defervescence takes place within five days, and convalescence then starts. In consequence a patient treated fairly early in his illness is spared much of the drawn‐out fever and toxaemia associated with the classical picture of typhoid.” The contrast is illustrated by Figs.…”