Merck's Archives of Materia Medica and Drug Therapy, Volume 3Merck & Company, 1901 - Chemotherapy |
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... Alcohol is not very satisfactory . Caffeine is better than digitalis , but it is also objec- tionable because it excites the brain and prevents sleep , a condition we wish to avoid . In this condition the brain is to be kept as inactive ...
... Alcohol is not very satisfactory . Caffeine is better than digitalis , but it is also objec- tionable because it excites the brain and prevents sleep , a condition we wish to avoid . In this condition the brain is to be kept as inactive ...
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... Alcohol , at once a stimulant , a tonic , a reserve food , a eupeptic , and a sedative ( among the abstinent ) , must perforce occu- py an important rank in the therapeutics of a continued fever accompanied generally by adynamia . Here ...
... Alcohol , at once a stimulant , a tonic , a reserve food , a eupeptic , and a sedative ( among the abstinent ) , must perforce occu- py an important rank in the therapeutics of a continued fever accompanied generally by adynamia . Here ...
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... alcohol may be in- dicated ; in influenza it is rather a slow con- valescence than the disease itself that re- quires alcohol . In this respect it differs from other infectious diseases , especially typhoid and diphtheria ; in the ...
... alcohol may be in- dicated ; in influenza it is rather a slow con- valescence than the disease itself that re- quires alcohol . In this respect it differs from other infectious diseases , especially typhoid and diphtheria ; in the ...
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... alcohol , the patient's previous habits and the urgency of the symptoms must be the decisive factors , but as a rule the patient is better off without it . The temperature of the patient's room must of course be equable , and the diet ...
... alcohol , the patient's previous habits and the urgency of the symptoms must be the decisive factors , but as a rule the patient is better off without it . The temperature of the patient's room must of course be equable , and the diet ...
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... alcohol and fixed oils . The statements made by Som- merbrodt and Fraenkel , as to the benefits derived from the administration of creosote in phthisis , led Sahli to try guaiacol , with advantage . Sahli prescribed it thus : Guaiacol ...
... alcohol and fixed oils . The statements made by Som- merbrodt and Fraenkel , as to the benefits derived from the administration of creosote in phthisis , led Sahli to try guaiacol , with advantage . Sahli prescribed it thus : Guaiacol ...
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