PUBLISHED MONTHLY. CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1879. PAGE MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. By George W. Winterburn, M. D.... 419 ORIGIN OF MEDIUM OR SPECIFIC MEDICATION. By Richard E. Kunzé, M. D.. 425 Manhattan Dispensary, 441.-Large Skulls, 444.-The Snow Plant, 445.— Thomas Winans' Will, 446.-Berlin's Wealth of Learned Men, 447.- Professor Huxley's One Sided Views, 447.--Who are Doctors by Law?- The Courts have Fully Settled this Question, 449.-The Brain of Professor Vaughan, 451.-Heredity in Crime, 452,-President Green's Appeal, 453.— The Absence of Hereditary Taint in Cancer of the Breast, and on Fibro- Plastic Growths, 454.-Longevity of Quakers, 456.-Artificial Carlsbad Salts, 457.-Narcotic Plant, 457.-Interesting Collection of Books, 458.— National Eclectic Medical Association, 459.-Meeting of the Nebraska State Eclectic Medical Association, 462.-Michigan Eclectic Medical Society, 464. -The Illinois State Board of Health, 465.-Medical Association of Eastern (1) GELATINE-COATED PILLS AND GRANULES, Of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and other reliable formulæ, prepared McKesson & Robbins, Form, Perfect Coating. 91 FULTON ST., New York. سم WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM THE PROFESSION THAT WE EMPLOY THE ONLY PROCESS IN COATING WHICH COMPLETELY COVERS THE PILL WITH GELATINE. Among the many important formulas on our list, we have selected a few which we give below whose reputation is mainly due to the care we have exercised in selection of the crude drug and skill in manufacture. Physicians prescribing these or any of our pills will not be disappointed in results, either from the poverty of the material or degeneracy of the mass after being made up into pills. In substances of this nature it is absolutely necessary that the pills be entirely covered by the coating. Pills have been shown us covered with a wash so thin as to be no protection whatever against the action of the atmosphere; every one of these pills that we examined had a hole running from the exterior of the coating to the centre. A single dose of our cathartic pills will prove the ready solubility of the coating. ERGOTIN.... ........ ... .3 grs. COCA ERYTHROXYLON....1 gr. Made from the solid extract prepared in our laboratory. The medicinal effects of these pills are strongly marked, and we have many letters testifying to the regularity of their action. CANNABIS INDICA...1-2 & 1 gr. This important pill will be found to exhibit in a marked manner the therapeutical effects of the solid extract of which they are composed. When cut, the distinctive color, taste and odor of the freshly made extract, is apparent. VEGETABLE CATHARTICS. All our cathartics are justly celebrated for the certainty of their action. The extract of Colocynth, from pulp, and extract of Jalap are prepared in our own laboratory. PODOPHYLLIN, 1-8, 1-4, 1-2 & 1 gr. ALOIN............1-10, 1-5 & 1 gr. These important changeable substances will be found perfectly preserved in our Gelatine-Coated Pills, samples of which will be furnished any physician upon application. 1A Formula books, with our full list of pills, containing therapeutical notes, sent to any address. MCKESSON & ROBBINS, Manufacturing Chemists, 91 Fulton Street. New York SPECIFY MCKESSON & ROBBINS Oval Shape. Complete Coating. 216 (2) BE CAREFUL TO SPECIFY MCKESSON & ROBBINS'. IMPORTANT TO PHYSICIANS! The fact that Sulphate of Quinine is only soluble in over 700 parts of water is not generally known, or if known is not usually considered, except in prescriptions, when this difficulty is overcome by the addition of Acid; and the further fact that Bi-Sulphate of Quinine is soluble in only 10 parts of water is as little appreciated. McKesson & Robbins have paid much attention to the subject of putting Quinine into Pills, in à condition approaching that of a solution, and have at last succeeded in their BI-SULPHATE OF QUININE PILLS, and offer the same to the profession, confident that they will stand any test for solubility and prompt action. Physicians will please always specify McK. & R. Bi-Sulph. Quinine Pills, and they will not be disappointed in results. The prices for our Bi-Sulphate Quinine Pills are the same as for the Sulphate. Note. With no reference to respectable druggists, we would say that cases have come to our knowledge and have been noted, where other pills have been substituted on prescriptions for ours. Yours respectfully, MCKESSON & ROBBINS, 91 FULTON ST., NEW YORK. |