BROMO SODA A knowledge of what the physician is prescribing is essential to the correct application of therapeutics. A competing firm has perpetrated a slander before the Medical profession and the public in claiming that their preparation of Caffeine was imitated. They are too cowardly to give the name of the firm, neither do they give the composition of the remedy they are advertising, how, therefore, could there be any imitation practiced? The assertion is a slur on the intelligence of the Medical profession. BROMO SODA was originated and introduced by us; we have as much right to the word "Bromo" as anyone Tilden & Co. used it in connection with Chloralum long ago; any printer has the right of setting up the word in a curved line. How could the doctor be expected to do otherwise than prescribe Effervescent BROMO SODA (containing Bromide Sodium, grs. 30, Caffeine, gr. 1, in each dessertspoonful), as published to the profession; or Bromo Potash (containing Bromide of Potash 20 grains, and Caffeine 1 gr.)? Hence we say: "No snake in the grass," meaning that BROMO SODA is not a secret remedy, and such as the doctors can use with confidence, with better and more certain effect. Prescribed in dessertspoonful doses in half a goblet of water and taken while effervescing (a pleasant draught). In all cases of headache, migraine, insomnia, nervousness, etc., specify Bromo Soda or Bromo Potash (Wm. R. Warner & Co.) to avoid disappointment by substitution. WILLIAM R. WARNER & CO. WM. R. WARNER & CO.'S TRIPLE (EFFERVESCING) EFFERVESCENT BROMIDES ADVANTAGES.-Useful in Headache, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Migraine, Diurnal Epilepsy, etc., etc. DOSE-A teaspoonful containing Sodium Brom. grs. 15; Potassium Brom. grs. 10; Ammonium Brom. grs. 5. Three times daily. DOSE.-Administer one teaspoonful in half a glass of water. Drink while effervescing. In Diurnal Epilepsy take a desertspoonful three times daily until sense of taste is partly destroyed. After this reduce the frequency of dose, but keep the fauces in a benumbed condition. CHALYBEATE SALINE (Ferric Saline Effervescens, Dr. Means.) Each heaping teaspoonful contains one grain Citro-tartrate of Iron and 20 grs. of Soda. DOSE.-A heaping teaspoonful of the salt, containing 1 grain Cito-tartrate of Iron and 20 grs. of Soda, to be taken in a glass two-thirds full of water and drank while effervescing. If a more decided effect is desired, warm instead of cold water may be used. In all cases this draught should be taken but once or twice a day, and then on an empty stomach, preferably before breakfast. No restrictions as to diet. One or two Pil. Digestiva (W. & Co.) may be taken at noon, before eating, as a dinner pill. PREPARED ONLY BY WM. R. WARNER & CO., Originators and Manufacturers of Bromo-Soda, Bromo-Potash, a Full Line of Effervescent Salts. Preparations supplied by al leading druggists. i DR. R. DE MAZARREDO, Cienfuegos, Cuba, will pay a good price for November WORLD, 1886. FOR SALE $300. I offer my location at this figure. Averages 5 dollars a day, cash. No competition, no office rent, no property to buy, no horse needed, just the place for a worthy young man. Dr. P., MEDICAL WORLD. PRACTICE wanted in Florida. Will exchange good property and practice here for a first-class location there. Those desiring to make the change, address, Dr. P., Bairds Mills, Tenn. Griffith's Compound has complete control over rheumatism. It is rather tough on the boy to be a doctor's son, and named William. The opprobrious title, "the doctor's Bill," will ever stick to him. Now why not take early advantage and be the only physician in your town to introduce an oxygen generator in your office. Address the American Oxygen Association, 119 E. 28th St., N. Y. "What becomes of the old moons, pa ?" "The old moons, my son? Why, they die of newmonia, to be sure." Send to Keasby & Mattison, Phila., for samples of Bromo-Caffeine. Then buy your drugs there. There are many doctors in the poorer parts of London who will see a patient, prescribe, and supply medicine at twelve cents a visit. Write to Walter F. Ware, 70 N. Third street, Philadelphia, for the best nipple in the world, and for the only efficient gonorrheal apron. They are certainly perfect. A RARE OPPORTUNITY.-Property and practice in a Northern Ohio village, surrounded by a thickly settled, rich farming community. Practice worth $2000 a year, and can be increased by right kind of man. Price, $1500. Terms easy. Satisfactory reasons for selling. This is one of the best locations in this State. Address, MEDICUS, Poplar, Crawford Co., Ohio. There is no occasion for the doctors getting up a "trust;" it is all trust with them now. If you are in doubt as to any new drug, address Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. People multiplied on the face of the earth long be fore arithmetic was invented. Have you yet tried London Essence of Beef? You will find it to possess real nutritive value. Teacher - What is the pleural of child? Boy (promptly)-Twins. The demand for Weinhagen's thermometers is simply wonderful. This is fully accounted for by the satisfac tion attendant upon their use. A film of oil no more than the sooo of an inch will prevent waves from breaking. J. C. Vetter & Co., 214 E. 47th street, New York, manufacture a fine and reliable line of medical hatteries. See advertisement. A cornet player who cannot attend the band meeting should send a subs-to-toot. (Continued over next leaf.) Various New Therapeutic Uses of ANTIFEBRIN, Very Favorably reported-on by Eminent Physicians: Beside the above, Antifebrin continues to enjoy the decided preference of the Medical Profession OVER ALL OTHER ANTIPYRETICS; being, f. i., of Four Times the Strength of Antipyrine, according to the Clinical Report of Drs. A. Cahn and P. Hepp of Prof. Kussmaul's Clinique at the University of Strassburg. Abstracts of numerous Medical Reports on the above-mentioned qualities of ANTIFEBRIN Will be mailed on application Manufacturing (73 WILLIAM ST., Chemist, to the Sole Licensee for the U.S.: E. MERCK, New York. Platt's Chlorides, A LIQUID DISINFECTANT. ODORLESS, COLORLESS, POWERFUL, ECONOMICAL. ENDORSED BY OVER 16,000 PHYSICIANS. INVALUABLE IN THE SICK ROOM. A NECESSITY IN THE HOUSEHOLD. Sold by Druggists in quart bottles only. Price 50c, To any physician who may still be unacquainted with it, a sample will be sent free of expense, if this Pepsin in Crystal Pepsin Philadelphia CAUTION. Physicians who prepare or keep their own medicines in stock, or who have their preparations ready-made at the drug stores, will please take notice, that Peptic Ferments in liquid forms gradually looses its digestive property and becomes totally inert. They should therefore never be carried in stock, but to be prepared only when prescribed. Owing to this fact, I have refrained from putting up the various liquid preparations of Pepsin. My Pepsin in its scaly (so-called crystal form), or in powdered state preserves its digestive strength for years. This Pepsin has won for itself a reputation all over the world phenominal in pharmaceutical literature. When prescribed in powder form Pulvis Aromaticus furnishes the best vehicle or adjuvant. Always underline my name when prescribing my pepsin. William Snowden, 7 South Eleventh street, Phila., is always abreast of the times in surgical instruments. A great many people who are crazy to get into the social swim are drowned before they get out. Is it a hypodermic syringe that you want? Send to Codman and Shurtleff, 13 and 15 Tremont St., Boston, for the finest one made, at a reasonable price. "How is the earth divided?" asked the professor of a Junior girl. "By earthquakes, sir." Next month we will publish in full the great reduction in price of that old favorite, "Best" tonic. Write the Phillip Best Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wis., and you may have that reduction now. Wilson, the celebrated vocalist, was upset one day in his carriage near Edinburgh. A scotch paper, after recording he accident, said: "We are happy to state he was able to appear the following evening in three pieces." Send to Jerome Kidder Mfg. Co., 820 Broadway, N. Y., for a valuable book, "Etectro-Allotropic Physio!ogy,' ," the work of the distinguished scientist, Dr. Jerome Kidder himself. Free if our name is mentioned. A young lady visiting for the first time in the country was alarmed at the approach of a cow. She was too frightened to run, and shaking her parasol at the ani mal, she said in a very stern tone: " Lie down, sir! lie down!" Carnrick's Soluble Food occupies an enviable position as a reliable nutritive. Otto Flemming, 10c9 Arch St., Phila., can easily grasp the idea of that new battery you are planning and HIRSH, FRANK & CO., will make it strictly according to order. Lambert's Listerine is the first as well as the best of antiseptic compounds. When prescribing pepsine always specify JENSEN'S. A 31 North Third St., Philadelphia. In ordering, send chest measure and length of sleeve from middle of back. RE you tired of carrying a bulky. heavy visiting list in your pocket constantly? RE you tired transferring your original entries into secondary books? RE you tired of running the risk of losing what you have earned by keeping your accounts in signs? The Medical World Visiting List relieves you from all this. It consists of an elegant leather case and twelve removable sections, (one for each month of the year). The case has a pocket for prescription blanks, an erasible tablet for pencil memoranda, and a place for fastening the visiting list section. Each section has 46 pages ruled for monthly accounts, each date being printed, and space for name and address of patient, services for each separate day of the month and amount charged for each day, monthly total, credits and balance. Any section can be used for any month, or part of any month. When a section is full it can be removed and a new one inserted; thus the list is never large nor heavy, yet it, capacity is unlimited, as it can constantly be renewed. 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Notice is given on the wrapper when your subscription expires. You are invited to renew promptly, when this notice is given. This is necessary if you wish to continue to receive THE WORLD, as it is sent only as long as paid for. We cannot always supply back numbers. Should a number fail to reach a subscriber, we will supply another, if notifled before the end of the month. Pay no money to agents for this journal unless publisher's receipt is given. The This is a 1. A fundamental error in teaching. student gets a wrong start. He is taught abstractly from books and by lectures. very good method in mental philosophy; but it will not do in studying material things. Every minute of instruction in materia medica should be accompanied by a sample of the article under consideration. The ideas thus acquired impress themselves much more vividly upon the mind. Syllables and words are forgotten, while what we have experienced with our senses is remembered forever. 2. The young graduate takes to writing prescriptions, when he should fit up a small laboratory and dispense most of his own drugs, for several years at least. One's reasoning and memory are both better before a row of bottles than of books. He should spend much of his leisure time in this laboratory, analyzing and experimenting. Most of the important advances in therapeutics have been made by men who have been, at some time in their lives, intimately acquainted with drugs. 3. The lack of a more systematic and thorough demonstration of the value of new drugs, or new uses of old drugs before reporting them. in laudatory terms, and commending them to the confidence of the profession. 4. The tendency to regard all recoveries as cures. Many cases recover by reason of the drugs used; many independently of them and many in spite of them. A remedy to be entitled to much credit must produce a beneficial result promptly and to an extent that is plainly evident. The changes that are incident to the natural course of the disease must not be attributed to the medicines used. The remedy which is entitled to the highest credit must be specific against the disease itself, and not allow it to become necessary to combat complications as they subsequently arise. For example, in pneumonia there is, in the pulmonary engorgement, a serious obstruction to the circulation of the blood; the heart, struggling continually against this obstruction to maintain the circulation, finally becomes exhausted, and we have the heart failure, so frequently the cause of the fatal issue of pneumonia. Now the ideal treatment is not the stimulant to whip up the jaded organ to exertion beyond its capability, but a treatment which will remove the pulmonary blood stasis and render the extra amount of work unnecessary. * It is interesting and instructive to study the history of therapeutics; to see what strange things from the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms have been used as medicine, and how widely men have differed in different ages. |