The Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, Volume 17; Volume 56

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1886 - Medicine

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Page 304 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is "to be a good animal," and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.
Page 64 - LACTOPEPTINE. The most important Remedial Agent ever presented to the Profession, for DYSPEPSIA, VOMITING IN PREGNANCY, CHOLERA INFANTUM, CONSTIPATION, and all diseases arising from imperfect nutrition.
Page 236 - Oil) is not a simple alkaline emulsion of oleum morrhua, but a hydro-pancreated. preparation, containing acids and a modicum of soda, Pancreatin is the digestive principle of fatty foods, and.
Page 152 - Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 296 - In teaspoou tul (loses, 3 times a day. It favors the SECRETION and EXCRETION of bile, and gradually removes the congested and torpid states of the liver, and keeps the bowels in a regular and soluble condition. DOSE.— ONE or MORE teaspoonfuls as directed by he Physician.
Page 50 - It has the power of increasing tissue-change, and thus multiplying the products of tissue-waste which result from it, but it removes these waste products as fast as they are formed, and thus, by giving rise to increased appetite, provides fresh nutriment for the tissues, and thus acts as a true tonic. In persons who are accustomed to take too little water, the products of tissue-waste may be formed faster than they are removed, and thus accumulating may give rise to disease.
Page 64 - LACTOPEPTINE, we will consider it a favor if such facts are reported to us, for there can be no doubt that substitution of Pepsin or some of the cheap imitations of Lactopeptine has been practiced, whenever the therapeutic activity of Lactopeptine is not uniformly demonstrated in its indications. The New York Pharmacal Association. Box 1574. address for our New Medical Almanac, containing valuable information.
Page 129 - ARSENIC IN SKIN DISEASES. — The editor of the Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases is desirous of ascertaining to what extent arsenic is used by American physicians in the treatment of skin diseases, and also the results of their experience as to its therapeutical value. Information upon the following points is requested of every physician who reads this: Are you in the habit of employing arsenic, generally, in the treatment of skin diseases...
Page 414 - SURGERY (THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF). A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Surgery by Authors of various Nations.
Page 174 - The oidium albicans quickly succumbs to its influence. I am well aware of the great value of nitrate of silver, in many of these conditions; but, I am also alive to its extremely disagreeable and persistent taste, and the dislike which precocious children at once take to it. For thrush in children, I especially recommend boric acid, either as a mouth-pigment or as a confection. Honey and sugar have both been condemned, as being inadmissible, in combination, for the treatment of thrush; but, so far...

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