The Medical Forum: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Medical Profession, Volume 2

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1905 - Homeopathy
 

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Page 351 - ANIMAL IRON, 20% coagulable albumen, and every element of nutrition of the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms. It is readily absorbed by the tissues, requires little or no digestion, is prompt and reliable in stimulation and support, and is a nutrient of the very highest value. BOVININE administration causes quick increase of the leucocytes, and a consequent arrest of all pathological processes. BO VI NINE is advertised to the Profession only, and is a strictly ethical physician's preparation.
Page 351 - AS yield readily to organic, or true animal iron treatment. A resort to inorganic iron preparations or tonics, serves only to stimulate -corpuscular proliferation without supplying sufficient nutrition to mature the blood cells.
Page 328 - I noted that those therapeutic elements containing a food product and a stimulating vehicle have shown the most satisfactory and prompt results while those purely of a drug basis seemed to have a limited usefulness. The conclusion reached by my experiments ext nding over several years, leads me to unhesitatingly endorse Bovinine as being the best tonic, stimulant and food.
Page 64 - This practice would be sufficient if anemia were, in reality, nothing more than a condition of iron deficiency; but the profession realize now that the underlying costive factor is a disturbance of the process of nutrition and cell proliferation, and that iron poverty is but one manifestation of this disorder. Ample proof of this fact has been presented to every doctor when he has observed how anemic conditions persist in spite of the long continued administration of the various preparations of iron.
Page 64 - That there is a deficiency of iron in the blood in most forms of anemia is, of course, indisputable; and to endeavor to supply this lack by the administration of iron seems but a common sense procedure. This practice would be sufficient if...
Page 117 - The perfection of a cure consists in restoring health in a prompt, mild, and permanent manner ; in removing and annihilating disease by the shortest, safest, and most certain means upon principles that are at once plain and intelligible.
Page 110 - Thou great eternal Infinite, the great unbounded Whole, Thy body is the Universe — thy spirit is the soul. If thou dost fill immensity; if thou art all in all; If thou wert here before I was, I am not here at all. How could I live outside of thee? Dost thou fill earth and air?
Page 327 - ... organic disease can be observed, but where many indefinite complaints, due to blood impoverishment, are plainly in evidence. Whatever concomitant conditions exist with anemia and regardless of whatever special treatment may be demanded by plainly existing established organic trouble, it is, nevertheless, a fact, that the most complete and rapid cures are by restoring to the blood its normal elements. Consequently, the physician is justified in treating all cases of anemia with regard to the anemia...
Page 306 - At the present moment there is no evidence to prove that any permanent cures have been obtained, save possibly in the case of rodent ulcer.
Page 357 - Diastase, Nux Vomica, Bismuth Subgallate, Willow Charcoal and Lactic and Hydrochloric Acids. Recommended in all cases of Indigestion of a stubborn, intractable, unyielding character, particularly those unaffected by the administration of other remedies.

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