Tonic begins aright in these cases; it makes a friend of the rebellious stomach makes it docile, receptive, retentive. The patient improves from the start-has more strength, less depression and exhaustion. The physician notes the patient's ability to eat, digest and assimilate food-the dormant nutritive functions seem to assume new life. The blood rapidly regains the necessary elements for healthful nutrition of the entire body-the red blood corpuscles and haemoglobin increase hand in hand; nervous force, vitality, is re-engendered; irritability, sleeplessness and exhaustion disappear. Restoration of constitutional vigor and return to health is but a natural sequence; it usually results in a surprisingly short time. Skepticism as to the truth of these facts may be entertained by those who have never given Gray's Tonic a fair clinical trial; but with those physicians who have tried the remedy, skepticism has yielded to the inexorable verdict of facts-actual, accomplished results. The experience of countless physicians leaves no ground for doubt that Gray's Tonic is the remedy par excellence-the pleasant, uniformly effective remedy-in waste of tissue and impoverishment of blood and vitality. Its rapidity of action is especially noticeable in convalescence from typhoid fever, la grippe, pneumonia and other exhausting ailments. Its uniformity of action is a certainly in all. Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp. owes its distinctive value to the proportion of the contained ingredients and their manner of combination. All imitations lack these characteristics of the original and are consequently of inferior value. Sanmetto in Urethral Stricture.-Dr. Jos. Swindell, of West Burlington, Iowa, writing, says: "I have been using Sanmetto for several years. I find nothing that suits me as well in genito-urinary diseases. I am using it right along in conjunction with treatment of urethral stricture. It soothes, checks and prevents smarting and inflammation that is so common after passage of bougie. Its ease of administration and formula should recommend it to the profession." A Corrector of lodism.-Dr. W. H. Morse reports (Southern Clinic for May) success in the use of Bromidia, which he says has proved corrigental of Iodia. Discussing his results he says: "Vomiting is so frequent and troublesome a symptom, in many diseases besides irritation and inflammation of the stomach, as to demand much practical attention from the physician. So, although the causes are so various, and although we are actually treating a symptom, for this symptom Bromidia is remarkably effectual. We have all employed the remedy for colic and hysteria, two disorders where nausea and vomiting are as pronounced as they are persistent, and almost the first evidence of relief is shown by the disappearance of these disagreeable symptoms. It is quite as efficacious for the nausea and vomiting from ulcer or cancer of the stomach. There is nothing that will more quickly check the vomiting, and the hypnotic effect is quite in order."--Medical News. OZ DR 2 16 12 A New Nose Cup.—This cup has been designed by W. J. Evans, New York City, to meet the demand for an instrument for washing out the nasal cavity, which could be used without fear of injury to the breathing passages, or forcing of fluid into the Eustachian tubes. It admits of the natural method of cleansing the nose, or, as it has been termed "drinking through the nose." This method is at once easily taught and easily learned, and is efficient without being harmful. The fluid is placed in the cup, the higher curve of the rim being adjusted beneath the nostrils. The cup is tilted until the liquid enters the nostrils, then, closing the mouth, a slight drawing in of the breath causes the solution to enter the nose and naso-pharynx, thus bringing it in contact with all parts of the nasal mucous membrane. The solution may be allowed to pass to the back of the throat, and be expelled through If it is desired to douche one nostril at a time, this may be easily accomplished by alternately pressing the elevated rim of the cup against the wing of the nostril, thus completely closing it. The cup can be obtained from McKesson & Robbins, New Actual Size. the mouth. York. A New Pulmonary Sedative Combination. -Our readers will note in this number the announcement of antikamnia and heroin tablets, samples of which will be furnished on request by the manufacturers. Each tablet contains 1-12 grain of heroin hydrochloride and 5 grains of antikamnia. The very frequent association of chest pain, cough and dyspnea renders such a synergetic combination as the one mentioned most desirable. The actual benefits to be obtained from the administration of these tablets are exemplified by a number of clinical reports submitted by Dr. Uriel S. Boone, Professor of Pharmacology and Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis. One of these cases was an athlete, sufferring from a severe acute bronchitis, with pain induced by coughing. He was given a tablet of antikamnia and heroin every four hours. After taking three tablets the cough was entirely relieved, and did not recur, though one tablet thrice daily was taken for three more days. Another patient that was greatly relieved and saved many sleepless nights, was an incurable consumptive, who was given an antikamnia and heroin tablet four times daily, one on retiring. A more striking example was that of a young man who had lost twenty-five pounds in thirty days, had night sweats and an evening temperature of 101. Under atropine and the antikamnia and heroin tablets, one every four hours, he recovered entirely and is again at work. In none of the series of cases were any untoward by- or after-effects manifested. 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. We do not hesitate to recommend the preparations advertised by them on page 30, this issue. THE EUROPEAN MINERAL SPRING TREATMENT. In certain diseases, a "course" at a European mineral spring is recommended by medical men, to be taken by patients able to make the necessary sacrifices of time and money, either on a special occasion, or in chronic cases as an annual treatment. Such springs are situated at Carlsbad, Marienbad, Franzensbad, Homburg, Kreuznach, Nauheim, Vichy and other places. Inactivity or diseases of the liver, kidney, stomach, and gallbladder, with resulting symptoms: Constipation, dyspepsia, gout, rheumatism, and plethoric habit are thus treated with very satisfactory results. The heavy expenses, consumption of time and interruption of business entailed by a journey abroad deter many persons, who would otherwise undergo the treatment with advantage, from availing themselves of it. But for these considerations, the treatment in question would be prescribed by physicians in numerous instances, where they have to find a less effectual substitute in drugs of various kinds. All the advantages obtained from the usual course at a European mineral spring can now be obtained anywhere, when Kutnow's Improved Effervescent Powder is regularly ordained. By an ingenious expedient, such salts as constitute the active principle of these mineral spring waters, are presented in dry, pulverized form in Kutnow's Improved Effervescent Powder. In this powder the medicinal salts are combined with ingredients which produce the same effervescence as in the springs, and when a dessertspoonful to a tablespoonful of Kutnow's Powder is dissolved in half a tumbler of water a reproduction of the water of these springs (in, however, a perfectly palatable condition) is obtained, which possesses medicinal advantages equal to those of the natural spring waters, and great benefit may, therefore, be derived by the administration of Kutnow's Powder. Thus, as a substitute for mineral spring treatment, many eminent medical men and the most prominent and authoritative medical journals everywhere, have recommended Kutnow's Improved Effervescent Powder, which is a portable, economical, reliable and perfectly palatable remedy, extensively employed and recommended by the medical profession of both hemispheres. Kutnow's Effervescent Powder is pronounced by a large number of eminent physicians who have prescribed it to be not only an excellent aperient, but it also exercises a beneficial effect on the liver, gall-bladder, kidneys, and stomach. The flavor is unobjectionable, and thus it is readily taken by women and children. It has also been successfully prescribed in diabetes, and for the correction of gouty and rheumatic conditions or predisposition thereto. "Its advantages," says a medical correspondent, "appear to arise from its possessing the power to eliminate from the body the excess of bile and acids, thereby purifying the blood and strengthening the general tone by improving the assimilative processes of the debilitated system. Consequently, it has a salutary effect in cases of hypochondriasis associated with low spirits and general depression." For the above reasons, Kutnow's Effervescent Powder has been employed, under the highest medical authority, for patients leading sedentary lives, and those suffering from abnormal accumulations of fat. For ladies of corpulent habit, it will in particular, be found a pleasant and effective remedy. The action of Celerina on the brain and nervous system is that of an exhilarant, relieving depressions, and lessening irritable nerve conditions. In cases of organic and functional lesions of the heart, an increased steadiness of pulse beat, and diminution of pulse variation is apparent. Scott's Emulsion gives cod-liver oil a pass- Scott's Emulsion has been the standard SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409 Pearl St., New York. |