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Page 307 - So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and li'es down to pleasant dreams.
Page 100 - The experience of the medical profession justifies the confidence which it has so often expressed. In the whole intestinal tract this remedy acts as a sedative and hypnotic. It does not lessen the supply of blood to any organ of the body, but gives natural and consistent nerve rest.
Page 484 - The writer can not help thinking that this powerful news organ has not informed itself thoroughly of the real purpose and function of a federal department of health, and in its attack upon a large body of men such as compose the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association...
Page 471 - If these conditions are partly dependent upon a disordered stomach, two fivegrain antikamnia tablets with fifteen or twenty drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia, well diluted, are advisable. For the pain following sun or heatstroke, antikamnia in doses of one or two tablets every two or three hours will produce the ease and rest necessary to complete recovery. As a preventive of and cure for nausea while traveling by railroad or steamboat, and for genuine mal de mer...
Page 216 - In prescribing the products of manufacturing pharmacists, we should be guided to a great extent by the business standing of the manufacturers. No other house in the South or West has a better reputation for strict integrity than the Robinson-Pettet Company, Louisville, Ky.
Page 109 - Patients suffering from chronic recurrent appendicitis should be operated during the interval. 2. Patients suffering from acute appendicitis should be operated on as soon as the diagnosis is made, provided they come under treatment while the infectious material is still confined to the appendix, if a competent surgeon is available.
Page 485 - That it shall be the duty and province of such Department of Public Health to supervise all matters within the control of the Federal Government relating to the public health and to diseases of animal life.
Page 258 - In malarial conditions a diuretic is not indicated as often as the symptoms suggest, as one always has to contend with a torpid liver, that is throwing a part of its work on the kidneys, meaning double duty for the latter. In such cases the rational treatment is to use some agent which will stimulate all the excretory organs, dividing the duty of each and causing thorough elimination.
Page 258 - THE extract of cod liver oil used in the preparation of Hagee's Cordial of the Extract of Cod Liver Oil Compound is made under such conditions that the medicinally active principles of the oil are separated from the fatty materials without in the least changing their state of combination or solubility, so that even the most complex specific lecithine of cod liver oil is contained as such in the extract and transferred unchanged to the cordial.
Page 363 - ... nephritic Invalid, as the damaged kidneys are thus spared the Irritation which results from the excretion of the products of the metabolic changes of the meat proteids, etc. It Is well known, however, that milk contains but an infinitesimal proportion of iron, and the patient who subsists entirely upon this fluid for any length of time Is deprived of the food-iron that is normally supplied to the blood to maintain its hematin and hemoglobin. This deficiency can be readily made good by administering...