American Medical Digest, Volume 7H. Campbell & Company, 1888 - Medicine Issued in monthly parts. A digest of current medical literature, abstracts and reviews, in three parts: medicine, surgery, diseases of women and children and obstetrics. |
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Page 15 - America and England for efficiency in the treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the respiratory organs, and is employed also in various nervous and debilitating diseases with success. ITS CURATIVE PROPERTIES are largely attributable to Stimulant, Tonic and Nutritive qualities, whereby the various organic functions are recruited.
Page 15 - Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products.
Page 15 - AGENTS— Iron and Manganese ; The TONICS — Quinine and Strychnine; And the VITALIZING CONSTITUENT— Phosphorus, Combined in the form of a Syrup, with slight alkaline reaction. IT DIFFERS IN EFFECT FROM ALL OTHERS, being pleasant to taste, acceptable to the stomach, and harmless under prolonged use.
Page 22 - Students who began their professional studies elsewhere may be admitted to advanced standing ; but all persons who apply for admission to the advanced classes must pass an examination in the branches already pursued by the class to which they seek admission, and furnish a satisfactory * certificate of time spent in medical studies.
Page vii - I have obtained by the use of Aletris Cordial. One of my patients who had miscarried three times previously, took Aletris Cordial during the last three months of pregnancy, and was delivered of a fine, healthy boy. I ordered it at her own solicitation, as she expressed so much ease and comfort after the use of the first bottle. I am now giving it to two more patients, who have miscarried several times before, and am in hopes of good results.
Page 21 - DOSE. One Teaspoonful three or four times a day. Unrivaled as a Uterine Tonic In Irregular, Painful, Suppressed and Excessire Menstruation. It Restores Normal Action to the Uterus, and Imparts Vigor to the Entire Uterine System.
Page 19 - This preparation produces results which can not be obtained from the use of commercial Bromide substitutes. DOSE.— One to two FLUID drachms. In WATER, three or more times a day.
Page 15 - ... depression or melancholy, and hence is of great value in the treatment of MENTAL AND NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. From its exerting a double tonic effect and influencing a healthy flow of the secretions, its use is indicated in a wide range of diseases. Each Bottle of Fellows' Hypophosphites contains 128 Doses.
Page 148 - US Geological Survey, read a paper on this subject, in which he said that the results of the various branches of hydrographic investigation, when rounded out, give a complete history of the progress of the cycle of existence of water from the time it reaches the earth as rain until it is again returned to the air by evaporation, or fixed more or less permanently in the tissues...
Page 19 - Each fluid drachm represents 15 grains of the Combined CP Bromides of Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Ammonium and Lithium.