The Medical World, Volume 13

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Roy Jackson., 1895 - Medicine

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Page xl - Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy, and removes depression and melancholy; hence the preparation is of great value in the treatment of mental and nervous affections.
Page xxxvii - Hygienic Dermal Powder " for Infants and Adults. Originally investigated and its therapeutic properties discovered in the year 1868 by Dr. Fehr, and introduced to the Medical and the Pharmaceutical Professions in the year 1873.
Page xl - FELLOWS Contains the Essential Elements of the Animal Organization— Potash and Lime ; The Oxidising Agents— Iron and Manganese ; The ToniCS — Quinine and Strychnine ; And the Vitalizing Constituent— Phosphorous , the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction.
Page viii - is never sold in bulk. It is put up in two sizes to retail at fifty cents and one dollar per bottle, and the name '•SYRUP OF FIGS " as well as the name of the California Fig Syrup Company, is printed on the wrappers and labels of every bottle. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. LOUISVILLE, Ky. NEW YORK, NY Mi*y«vwi9*viNf9*»fMf$»)4| Almfc For Brain= Workers, the Weak and Debilitated.
Page 238 - But, associated with this condition, there is always more or less pain, and antikamnia will remove these unpleasant symptoms and place the system in the best condition for the quinine to do its work. There are a number of ailments, not closely defined, which are due to the presence of malarial poison. All such conditions are greatly benefited by the use of "Antikamnia and Quinine Tablets.
Page 153 - There were many cases in which at the end of the first or the beginning of the second week...
Page xxv - In the management of catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane ; adapted to internal use, and to make and maintain surgical cleanliness— asepsis — In the treatment of all parts of the human body, whether by spray, irrigation, atomlzatlon, or simple local application, and therefore characterized by its particular adaptability to the field of PREVENTIVE MEDICINE-INDIVIDUAL PROPHYLAXIS.
Page 441 - ... twenty years, usually once every winter, I have been seized with a spasmodic cough just before going to sleep, which becomes so severe that I am compelled to get up and sit by the fire. After an hour or two I return to bed and am free from the cough till the next winter. In other respects I enjoy good health. Many years ago I found that one-half grain of codeine, taken about two hours before bedtime, absolutely stops the attack and leaves no unpleasant effect the next morning. In cases of vomiting...
Page 232 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 361 - Do not forget that incisions for abscesses in neck or face should run parallel with the wrinkles and folds. Do not be afraid of hurting the lacteal tubes in mammary abscess. More harm is done to the gland by the enlargement of the walls of the abscess than by a free incision. Never make a palmar incision except in the middle of the lower third and in the axial line of the fingers or at the sides of the palm. Do not...

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