ADVERTISEMENTS. Ecthol. 1601 No remedy yet introduced to the profession covers so large a field of usefulness as ECTHOL. It is indicated in all breaking down tendencies of the fluids, tissues and corpuscles, as it antagonizes and corrects all gangrenous and malignant conditions. Wherever there is dyscrasia of the secretions, or where blood poisoning or tissue disintegration exists, ECTHOL is the indicated remedy. In other words, it is anti-purulent. It is, therefore, indicated in typhoid or other morbific fevers, erysipelas, diphtheria, carbuncles, boils, gangrenous wounds, ulcers, abscesses, and all other cachectic conditions of the system. It is also the best remedy for the stings of insects, bites of snakes, for blotches, pimples, etc. In addition to its internal administration, it should be freely and frequently applied to external sores of every description. It should also be used as a mouth wash and gargle in ulcerated or putrid conditions of the mouth and throat. ECTHOL is neither alterative nor antiseptic in the sense in which those words are usually understood. It is anti-purulent, anti-morbific-a corrector of the depraved condition of the fluids and tissues. DIRECTIONS.-Ecthol should be administered internally IN ALL CASES, in doses of one teaspoonful four times a day, or as often as every two hours in very bad cases, and when used for external ailments, it should ALSO be freely applied to the affected parts. BATTLE & CO. Eye-Strain. Dr. Aaron Howell, in the Medical Bulletin, calls attention to the symptoms attending this condition and suggests the proper treatment. The symptoms of eye-strain are pain in the temples, pain in the back of the head and neck, red eyelids, and inability to see at a great distance or to read long at a time. The eyes become tired and vision blurred; there is strabismus or cast in the eye, and a tendency to avoid light. The eyes are partly❘ closed; there are twitchings of the lid; sick headache and dizziness when shopping, riding or attending places of amusement. Eye-strain may cause chorea and other nervous disease. It brings on neuralgia and headache that medicines fail to cure. Nearly every condition recited above, if brought about by defective vision, or an abnormal state of the ocular muscles, can be relieved by glasses. The fitting of glasses is, at times, a very difficult task, and should be intrusted only to a painstaking physician who thoroughly understands the different defects and diseases of the eye, and is skilful with the appliances used for the scientific selection of proper lenses. A great deal can be done to prevent collapse after surgical operation, by giving prompt attention to the following points: Temperature, time, hemorrhage, degree of anesthesia, and personal disturbance. The time consumed in the major surgical operations is of great importance, as is also the amount of hemorrhage. The longer the subject is under operation, the greater is the shock to the nervous system. The degree of anesthesia should never be greater than is required to alleviate pain and keep the subject quiet. The hypodermic injection of morphine one-fourth, and strychnine one-fiftieth, before operation, not only stimulates the heart, but reduces the amount of anesthetic to be given. A warm operating room and a warm bed are essential to prevent shock. Where the patient is in the hands of the surgeon some days prior to the operation, the best plan of treatment for shock is to treat it a week before it is produced. Clean out the alimentary canal and stimulate the action of the liver with mild purgatives, followed by a cathartic, a good nutritious diet, and the administration of strychnine two to three times daily, for forty-eight hours before operation. A quart of normal salt solution thrown into the bowels every twenty-four hours for three or four days before operation, and a complete evacuation of both bladder and bowels not longer than three hours before operation. This plan, added to the advice above given, after the operation, will relieve the surgeon of hours of anxiety, and, perhaps, save the life of some patient. I have probably said nothing new, nor that my hearers are not familiar with in this paper, but I trust I have emphasized upon the minds of a few, some one point that will be productive of good, and be of aid in combatting the greatest danger in surgery-shock.Oklahoma Med. Jour. Prolapsus and Version. Dr. G. W. Daywalt, Hume, Mo., reports a case of prolapsus with anteversion, complicated with irritable urethra, treated with Aletris Cordial, with marked improvement. Epilepsy. Dr. J. T. Wade, Arlington, Neb., is pleased with the results obtained by the use of Peacock's Bromides in a case of epilepsy, in a boy twelve years of age. Other remedies had been tried and failed. He has just finished the second bottle and is wonderfully improved. The Therapeutics of Hot Drinks. Chronic indigestion is sure, sooner or later, to be followed by disturbance of the motor apparatus of the digestive tract, usually affecting more particularly the stomach, which reacts less readily to stimulation. There results a condition of impaired secretion, plus a greater or less degree of muscular atony, which must be combated at an early stage if we wish to avoid an incurable degree of gastric dilatation. Among the remedies at our disposal hot drinks have, of late years, attained considerable vogue. The ingestion of tepid fluids exerts a marked sedative action on the gastric mucous membrane and often relieves the painful sensations following meals in chronic dyspepsia. Less recognized, perhaps, is the influence of hot drinks on the motor functions of the stomach. In the ordinary course of events nothing remains in the stomach six hours after a meal, and the presence of alimentary débris after that period indicates the presence of some degree of muscular paresis. This condition of things may be greatly benefited by the use of hot water with or immediately after meals; but in chronic cases permanent benefit can only be. obtained by perseverance, the treatment being methodically carried out for some months. As might be anticipated, the hot water treatment does not ameliorate the secretory defects in the same degree as the muscular weakness, but by maintaining the stomach in a hygienic condition we may, at any rate, hope to check further degradation of the peptic glands. The temperature of hot drinks should be from 105° to 110° F., and their employment is especially indicated in cases of hyperacidity associated or not with some degree of gastric dilatation. -Med. Press and Circular. |