American Medical Digest, Volume 4H. Campbell & Company, 1885 - Medicine Issued in monthly parts. A digest of current medical literature, abstracts and reviews, in three parts: medicine, surgery, diseases of women and children and obstetrics. |
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Page 16 - 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 76 - ... often disappear under its administration. 2. Cimicifuga has a positive antispasmodic effect upon the parturient woman. The neuralgic cramps, and irregular pains of the first stage of labor are ameliorated, and often altogether abolished. In fact during the first indiscriminate use of the drug in all cases, I had the mortification, with a few women, of terminating the labor so precipitately, and without prodromic symptoms, as to be unable to reach the bedside before the birth.
Page 16 - INHALER, This Is the only complete, reliable, and effective inhaler in use, arranged for the direct application of Muriate of Ammonia and other remedial Agents in the state of vapor to the diseased parts of the air passages in the treatment of catarrh and diseases of the throat and lungs.
Page 32 - Acid. DOSE.— Internally : One Teaspoonful Three or more times a day (as indicated), either full strength or diluted as necessary for varied conditions.
Page 144 - BOUDAULT'S PEPSINE is prepared in the form of Pepsine Acid and Pepsine Neutral. It is sold in bottles of one ounce, with a measure containing exactly five grains ; also in bottles of 4, 8, and 16 ounces for dispensing. BOUDAULT'S WINE OF PEPSINE. Formula of Dr.
Page 147 - This has a strong aromatic odour, which I have often detected about the patient and his room on the following day. With this there is a rapid decline of temperature, immediate abatement of frontal headache — in a word, complete defervescence — and it seldom happens that a second bottle ia required ; if so, the dose must be repeated as above.
Page 160 - Leaving them to soak occasionally for a few hours in very hot water greatly assists in the cleansing. When quite clean, they are put into a jar of fresh water containing about one per cent. of carbolic acid, and, after being in this for...
Page 32 - Member of the Academy of Medicine, and Prof. Laboulbene, in their report to the Society of Therapeutics, have given it their unqualified approval after the most searching experiments. This preparation is pleasant to administer, and if certain preliminaries are observed, success will be insured. SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES CONTAINING ONE DOSE.
Page 157 - Colocynth is a powerful hepatic as as well as intestinal stimulant. It renders the bile more watery, but increases the secretion of biliary matter. Jalap is a powerful hepatic as well as intestinal stimulant.
Page 96 - In the treatment of fracture of the lower end of the radius it is essential that proper allowance be made for the curvature of the anterior or palmar surface of this part of the bone. This is insured in the splint which I have devised, which follows correctly the radial curvature; and the fixing of the thenar and hypothenar eminences of the hand in their moulded beds, maintains the splint immovably in its correct position with reference to the radial curve.