Pediatrics, Volume 4

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Pediatric Publishing Company, 1897 - Children
 

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Page i - Power is largely attributable to its stimulant, tonic and nutritive properties, by means of which the energy of the system is recruited. Its Action is Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion; it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly 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 97 - Translated and edited by Augustus A. Eshner, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Philadelphia Polyclinic.
Page 570 - EARNESTLY RECOMMENDED as a most reliable FOOD for INFANTS, CHILDREN and Nursing-Mothers; -for INVALIDS and Convalescents; — for Delicate and Aged persons. It is not a stimulant nor a chemical preparation; but a PURE, unsweetened FOOD carefully prepared from the finest growths of wheat, ON WHICH PHYSICIANS CAN DEPEND in FEVERS and in all gastric and enteric diseases. It is easily digested, nourishing and strengthening, assists nature, never interferes with the action of the medicines prescribed,...
Page 452 - The American Pediatric Society is making a Collective Investigation of Infantile Scurvy as occurring in North America, and earnestly requests the cooperation of physicians, through their sending of reports of cases, whether these have already been published or not. No case will be used in such a way as to interfere with its subsequent publication by the observer. Blanks containing questions to be filled out will be furnished on application to any one of the committee. A final printed report of the...
Page i - Constituent — Phosphorus ; the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction. It Differs in its Effects from all Analogous Preparations ; and it possesses the important properties...
Page v - Hygienic Dermal Powder " for Infants and Adults. Originally investigated and its therapeutic properties discovered in the year 1868 by Dr. Fehr, and introduced to the Medical and the Pharmaceutical Professions in the year 1873.
Page vi - What is Hydroleine? It is a pancreatized emulsion of cod liver oil (Lofoten) obtained from fresh livers, and is based on scientific principles. Why better than other Emulsions? Because it is pre-digested, most thoroughly emulsified, possesses highest nutritive qualities, is palatable and does not disturb delicate stomachs. Increases the appetite. Improves digestion. Proved by clinical tests to be more...
Page 390 - ... conclusion reached is always the same — namely, there has been an average reduction of mortality from the use of antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria of not less than fifty per cent., and under the most favorable conditions a reduction to onequarter, or even less, of the previous death-rate. This has occurred not in one city at one particular time, but in many cities, in different countries, at different seasons of the year, and always in conjunction with the introduction of antitoxic serum,...
Page 19 - In 1853 he received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and at once began the practice of medicine there, a practice extending over forty-four years. Dr. Smith wa" married in 1858, and had seven children, fcur of whom — daughters — survive him.
Page 344 - I am driven to the conclusion that this method of infection of the glands of the neck through the tonsils must be of comparatively frequent occurrence, especially in children living under insanitary conditions and subjected to various devitalizing influences.

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