Southern Practitioner: An Independent Monthly Journal Devoted to Medicine and Surgery, Volume 30, Issue 121908 - Medicine |
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Page 587 - It's a wonderful laboratory — this human body. But it can't prevent the formation of deadly poisons within its very being. Indeed, the alimentary tract may be regarded as one great laboratory for the manufacture of dangerous substances. " Biliousness" is a forcible illustration of the formation and the absorption of poisons, due largely to an excessive proteid diet.
Page 587 - Later, they find they have sowu indigestion and are reaping ptomaines. It's a wonderful laboratory, this human body. But it can't prevent the formation of deadly poisons within its very being. Indeed, the alimentary tract may be regarded as one great laboratory for the manufacture of dangerous substances.
Page 587 - When a cathartic is desired, administer the tablets as directed and follow with a saline draught the next morning, before breakfast. This will hasten peristaltic action and assist in removing, at once, the accumulated fecal matter.
Page 580 - Syrup of Hypophosphites has tempted certain persons to offer imitations of it for sale. Mr. Fellows, who has examined samples of several of these, finds that no two of them are identical, and that all of them differ from the original in composition, in freedom from acid reaction, in susceptibility to the effects of oxygen when exposed to light or heat, in the property of retaining th - strychnine in solution, and in the medicinal effects.
Page 580 - ... to the effects of oxygen when exposed to light or heat, in the property of retaining the strychnine in solution, and in the medicinal effects. As these cheap and inefficient substitutes are frequently dispensed instead of the genuine preparation, physicians are earnestly requested, when prescribing the Syrup, to write "Syr. Hypophos., Fellows.
Page 589 - The convalescent period after typhoid fever is always a trying one. Weakened functions must be coaxed back to normal activity, and every effort made to promote proper nutrition. For many years Gray's \ Glycerine Tonic Comp. has enjoyed the confidence of the medical profession as a most efficient and satisfactory reconstructive for aiding convalescence. It increases the appetite, raises digestive capacity, and rapidly improves the absorptive and assimilative powers. Thus it offers the most tangible...
Page 588 - Antiseptic Powder will be satisfied that they have at last secured just the preparation they desired. Tyree's Antiseptic Powder can be used freely in any strength, at any time, and in any case. It is superior and preferable to the mercuric bichloride solution, because it is devoid of any element of danger.
Page 598 - Every woman is a law to herself in this respect. 2. An exacerbation in amount or change in character of the discharge in a woman who may have had a simple leucorrhea for months or years. Of these changes a free aqueous, acrid, or blood-tinged discharge is especially portentous. 3. A leucorrheal discharge in a patient who has never had it before. 4. Every atypical discharge in a woman after the menopause. These...
Page 588 - Its solubility is greater than that of bichloride of mercury tablets, and it does not erode delicate mucous membrane. The observant doctor will find that it makes a solution that may be thoroughly depended upon as a responsible and reliable antiseptic healing agent. It is scrupulously made, and its well balanced chemical adjustment has established its medical popularity.