The Medical Fortnightly, Volume 6, Issue 2

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1894 - Medicine
 

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Page 367 - TISTERINE is a well-proven antiseptic agent — an antizymotic — especially useful in the • —» management of catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane, adapted to internal use and to make and maintain surgical cleanliness — asepsis — in the treatment of all parts of the human body, whether by spray, injection, irrigation, atomization...
Page 364 - DISEASES. A Scientific Blending of True Santal and Saw Palmetto In a Pleasant Aromatic Vehicle.
Page 398 - has been to place in the hands of his readers an epitome of the science and practice of midwifery which embodies all recent advances.
Page 372 - Deranged digestion is the most common of all human ailments. It is a truism that no organ of the body can preserve its normal integrity when its supplying nerve is disordered by lowered tone, but this fact is largely ignored in these modern pepsin days — the cause being lost sight of whilst trying to remedy the effect. It is well known that an unusual worry or anxiety will upset the digestion of the neurotic patient.
Page 388 - The relative impunity of operative interference, accomplished by modern asepsis and antisepsis, has developed an undue tendency to, and rashness in, handling the knife. The hands take too frequently the place of brains. Who does not know that the alleged safety in operating tempts some of our skilled operators and the credulous public into useless, or even contraindicated procedure?
Page 367 - BABY POWDER." The " Hygienic Dermal Powder " for Infants and Adults. Originally investigated and its therapeutic properties discovered in the year 1868 by Dr.

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