The Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine and Surgery, Volume 11, Issue 5

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1883 - Medicine

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Page 195 - AGENTS— Iron and Manganese ; The TONICS — Quinine and Strychnine; And the VITALIZING CONSTITUENT— Phosphorus, Combined in the form of a Syrup, with slight alkaline reaction. IT DIFFERS IN EFFECT FROM ALL OTHERS, being pleasant to taste, acceptable to the stomach, and harmless under prolonged use. IT HAS...
Page 195 - ... 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 195 - Agents— Iron and Manganese ; The Tonics — Quinine and Strychnine ; And the Vitalizing Constituent — Phosphorus ; the whole combined in the form of a syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction.
Page 198 - The Digestion and Assimilation of Fats in the Human Body," by H C. BARTLETT, Ph D , FCS , and the experiments which were made, together with cases illustrating the effect of Hydrated Oil in practice, are concisely stated in a treatise on "Consumption and Wasting Diseases,
Page 195 - Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products.
Page 189 - MALTINE is prescribed by the most eminent members of the Medical Profession in the United States, Great Britain, India, China and the English Colonies, and is largely used at the principal Hospitals in preference to any of the Extracts of Malt.
Page 187 - FORMULA. — LISTERINE is the essential antiseptic constituent of Thyme, Eucalyptus, Baptisia, Gaultheria, and Mentha Arvensis, in combination. Each Fluid Drachm also contains two grains of refined and purified Benzo-boracic Acid.
Page 198 - The principles upon which this discovery is based have been described in a treatise on "The Digestion and Assimilation of Fats in the Human Body,
Page 196 - PEPTONOIDS contains more nutritive elements than ten pounds of any extract made by Liebig's formula, and from four to six times more Albuminoids and Fibrinoids than any Beef Extract ever offered to the Medical Profession.
Page 198 - Oil is so treated with pancreatin, soda, boric and hyocholic acids,that the process of digestion is partially effected before the organs of the patient are called upon to act upon it. Consequently it is readily assimilated. It will nourish and produce increase in weight in those cases where oils or fats not so treated, are difficult or Impossible to digest. In consumption and other wasting diseases, the most prominent symptom is emaciation, of which the first is the starvation 61 the fatty tissues...

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