St. Louis Clinical Review: A Monthly Journal of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery, Volume 8

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1885

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Page 211 - Give in presenting virulent drugs, such selected cases as may properly illustrate the various forms of poisoning by them, condensed as before.
Page 237 - Maltine with pepsine and pancreatine, containing, as it does, three of the all-important digestive agents, diastase being one of the constituents of Maltine. Dyspepsia in most cases will be found to yield to the medicinal properties of this combination, while the system is invigorated by its nutritive qualities.
Page 375 - Oil) is not a simple alkaline emulsion of oleum morrhua, but a hydro-pancreated. preparation, containing acids and a modicum of soda, Pancreatin is the digestive principle of fatty foods, and. In the soluble form here used, completely saponifies the oleaginous material so necessary to the reparative process in all -wasting diseases.
Page 397 - SUDDEN HOARSENESS. These two salts have been employed with advantage in cases of hoarseness and aphonia occurring suddenly from the action of cold. The remedy is recommended to singers and orators whose voices suddenly become lost, but which by these means can be recovered almost instantly. A little piece of borax the size of a pea is to be...
Page 403 - It is especially dangerous to replace a displaced uterus, when it is bound down by inflammatory adhesions, by any means which will overcome its fixedness by force. 12. The use of pessaries or supports of any kind, which find their lodgment in the pelvis, is generally followed by disastrous consequences when there is even slight primitive inflammation.
Page 402 - The following conclusions to his paper are worthy of careful study: 1. The sometimes terrible effects of examinations or operations in the pelvis do not often, if ever, take place when there is not a perceptible predisposing inflammation. 2. The inflammation may be so slight as to be easily overlooked.
Page 142 - I do for her? [The girl at the "central " switches off to a machinist talking to a saw-mill man.] Machinist to Husband — I think she is covered with scales inside about an inch thick. Let her cool down during the night, and before she fires up in the morning take a hammer and pound her thoroughly all over, and then take a hose and hitch it to the fire-plug, and wash her out.
Page 374 - Researches on the functions of the liver would show the beautiful adjustment of therapeutics in preparation of Hydroleine, furnishing, as it does, the acid and soda necessary to prevent selfpoisoning by re-absorption of morbid tubercular detritus and purulent matters into the general circulation...
Page 238 - It will be found a useful remedy also for constipation and chronic diarrhoea, resulting from mal-nutrition. Not only is maltine of itself of great value in certain cases, but it may be combined with the most valuable alteratives known, such as iodides, bromides, and chlorides, and is found to be a remedy of high value in all depraved conditions of the blood. The maltine manufactured by the Maltine Manufacturing Company, of New York, bears a high name, and this has been still further emphasized by...
Page 409 - DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN INDURATED CHANCRE AND HERPES. It sometimes happens that herpes of the penis presents itself under the form of a single patch of superficial ulceration, accompanied by some induration of the underlying tissues ; there may be also a swelling of the inguinal glands, so that the diagnosis between this so-called chancriform herpes and some forms of indurated chancre is very difficult in the early stages. M. Leloir, however, calls attention (Journ.

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