6 seems to have happened. J. Kantharia made the diagnosis by observing the patient’s tongue, pulse rate, and fever pattern. In those days, that was all a family doctor had to diagnose. Facilities like pathology laboratories and X-rays were limited to cities.
Even in the district place, one or two physicians were rarely seen, the place Patna belongs to is a very small village in the Ghed area of Junagadh district. There is only one general practitioner, Dr. Kantharia’s clinical knowledge is very good. Before examining the patient, talk to him with sufficient attention, ask questions, and listen to the answers by giving work.
‘I have one thing to say to the new doctors, don’t rely on tests and investigations for diagnosis. Cultivate the habit of talking to patients. The diagnosis of most of the ailments will be found from the patient’s talk.’Dr. Ketharia Bharpurvak also believed and said so.
Dr. The patient Kantharia diagnosed with typhoid fever was the eighteen-year-old son of the village headman. In this incident of 1965, Magan Mukhi was Bedoot. Happy eating and drinking. He knew how to spend two bucks for the village and the villagers. He did not have the gift of making money from leadership. There was no gap.
Eighteen-year-old Praveen went to Junagadh to study and lived in a rented room. He didn’t like eating out and it didn’t suit his body type. He used to fall sick every two or three months. Whenever he fell ill, he used to come to the village instead of getting treatment in Junagadh. He had to say. “I like Kantharia Sahib’s medicine.”
This time the health worsened. Mukhi’s anxiety also increased. The son was having fever for seven consecutive days, climbing one step every day. The head was splitting. The appetite was completely gone. The body went numb,
Dr. Kantharia himself was initially overwhelmed. After trying three medicines, when the morning of the eighth day came with fever, the doctor held his head and sank into deep meditation. He made the diagnosis after finding the central coating of Praveen’s tongue with an ascending pattern of fever and relative bradycardia of the pulse. ‘You have typhoid.
Nowadays, patients and their relatives are asking thousands of questions. Six decades ago, this was the only question in his mouth. ‘Any medicine to take?
The entire scenario of medical science has changed. Chloromathacetin, a rare drug used to treat typhoid in those days, has been completely banned for the last several decades. It had a side effect that was rarely seen. But it was a terrible proof for the patient in whom it was found.
This miracle drug was withdrawn from the market due to this one side effect. It was my favorite medicine. I have had typhoid thrice in my life. Then this medicine saved me from death.
Magan Mukhi should ask the same question, you tell me the truth, doctor sir. Now tell me what medicine my Praveen has to take!”
Dr. Kantharia wrote the prescription. generally
Any General Practitioner Medicines for common ailments
Like tablets, capsules, syrups etc. in own dispensary
are keeping, but diseases like typhoid every day
Since it is not seen, the doctor should prescribe the medicine
is Which the patient’s relatives have to get from the medical store.
There was not a single medical 1 store in that village with a population of two-and-a-half thousand. A large village twenty-two miles away with a population of ten thousand had only one medical store. Mukhi immediately brought medicine from there and started giving it to his son.
There was a special synergy between chloromycetin and typhoid fever. Typhoid fever may be rising day by day like the rungs of a ladder, but once Chloromycetin capsules are started in a healthy patient, the effect will be seen immediately.
From the second day, the fever starts coming down, that too like going down a staircase one step at a time. The efficacy of chloromycetin was so remarkable for typhoid fever that 1 some experienced chaoticians diagnosed it as such. If this patient’s fever is relieved by chloromycetin, it must be typhoid fever.’
This is what we used to call therapeutic diagnosis. Diagnosis does not mean treatment. But the diagnosis made from the treatment! The problem arose that after starting the medicine Praveen’s fever did not go down a bit. Even after two days, the fever did not go down, but Praveen’s general condition worsened. The third day also proved to be a failure. is Kantharia was deep in thought.
There can only be two reasons why chloromethanes proved ineffective in Praveen’s case: one. Misdiagnosis of typhoid and another reason…???
The doctor shuddered to imagine another reason, oh no! I am confident that my clinical diagnosis is absolutely correct, if Praveen’s illness is indeed typhoid.
This medicine must be cured. If it does not heal, the medicine is wrong! That is, some other powder must have been filled in this capsule named Chloromycetin.’
Sixty years ago today, without any equipment or tests, only his own medical knowledge. What a sigh of relief would a small village general practitioner, who makes a diagnosis based on skill and experience, accept the second of the two logics!
Dr. Kantharia instructed the compounder, ‘You go to Junagadh and get this medicine from our reputed medical store
From the next day, Praveen’s fever started decreasing. Its general
The condition also started improving. The doctor gave him antibiotics
They were also giving vitamin B-complex. seven days
After staying on liquids only until proficiently drinks semi-solids
Started taking diet. One of Mukhi’s sons ran away. Dr. Kantharia was not satisfied with this. He filed a complaint against the owner of the medical store in the ‘Food and Drugs Control’ department. He also had the prescription letter medicines and the medicine bill and sufficient number of witnesses to testify.
A ‘raid’ on a medical store revealed that each capsule of Chloromycetin was filled with chickpea flour. The store was locked and the owner was punished. From this incident, it is understood that how accurate the diagnosis of the old doctors was. It is also true that some of the now banned drugs were sometimes very effective!-
conclusion “Let me show you the unfathomable difference between God and the unshakable faith you have in God.”
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