The Canada Medical Record, Volume 17, Issue 9

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1889
 

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Page 208 - DOSE. — 1 to 2 every hour. Two Parvules of Calomel, taken every hour, until five or six doses are administered (which will comprise but half a grain), produce an activity of the liver which will be followed by bilious dejections and beneficial effects, that twenty grains of Blue Mass or ten grains of Calomel rarely cause, and sickness of the stomach does not usually follow.
Page 208 - This is a new class of medicines (spherical in form) designed for the administration of remedies in small doses for frequent repetition in cases of children and adults. It is claimed by some practitioners that small doses given at short intervals exert a more salutary effect.
Page 186 - LactopeptlMe, we will consider it a favor if such facts are reported to us, for there can be no doubt that substitution of Pepsin or some of the cheap imitations of Lactopeptine has been practiced, whenever the therapeutic activity of Lactopeptine is not uniformly demonstrated in its indications.
Page 208 - DOSE— A heaping teaspoonful in half a glass of water, to be repeated once after an interval of thirty minutes, if necessary.
Page 206 - the secretary of the treasury is authorized to grant permits to any incorporated or chartered scientific institution or college of learning to withdraw alcohol in specified quantities from bond without payment of the internal revenue tax on the same, or on the spirits from which the alcohol has been distilled, for the sole purpose of preserving specimens of anatomy, physiology, or natural history belonging to such institution, or for use in its chemical laboratory...
Page 208 - Med Prop. — Cathartic, Cholagogue. Two Parvules of Podophyllin, administered three times a day will re-establish and regulate the peristaltic action .and relieve habitual constipation, add tone to the liver, and invigorate the digestive functions.
Page 208 - Parvule will be of great use to physicians, as two Parvules represent the equivalent of one drop of Fowler's Solution, so that physicians can regulate the dose by giving one or more Parvules every hour. PARVULES OF CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, 1-100.
Page 208 - ... a bromide, and is greatly preferred, as compared with the bromide of potassium, on account of the greater toxic or poisonous effect of potassium salts, upon the human organism, as compared with those in which sodium is the base. In the vast majority of cases in which the bromides are used the vigor of nutrition is already lowered. It is, therefore, a matter of very considerable consequence to select that particular member of this important group of therapeutic agents that, while it secures the...
Page 208 - It is designated, as I understand, not only to allay nervousness, but by means of the combination of the Caffeine with the Bromide, to counteract the depressing effect of the latter. I have carefully considered the separate and combined...

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