Journal of Therapeutics and Dietetics, Volume 8, Issue 2

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Pitts Edwin Howes
Therapeutic Publishing Company, 1913
 

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Page iv - DOSAGE: The adult dose of the preparation is one teaspoonful. repeated every two hours or at longer intervals, according to the requirements of the individual case. For Children of tenor more years. from one-quarter to one-half teaspoonful. For children of three or more years, from five to ten drops. FOR SAMPLES AND LITERATURE. ADDRESS' MARTIN H SMITH CO., New YORK.
Page vii - Induces the so-called bilious" condition; at the same time an abundant secretion of normal bile Is assured, thereby demonstrating its value as a liver stimulant and true cholagogue.
Page 67 - The same thing is true of a remedy. Medicine comes and medicine goes, but only those based upon logic and having proved their therapeutic efficiency by the incontrovertible evidence of clinicians continue to live and grow in popularity. Such a product is Hayden's Viburnum Compound. Its reputation rests upon a half century of actual testing at the bedside and in the physician's office, and its reliability is as dependable as that of a law which has been operating in a community for a long time.
Page 67 - LAW are alike in this respect, that neither can be thoroughly established. Good laws cannot be enacted on the spur of the moment; they represent the gradual growth of a social habit or custom, so that by the time the law is ready to be enacted by a legislative body, it has already become a practical law among the community. The same thing is true of a remedy. Medicine comes and medicine goes, but only those based upon logic and having proved their therapeutic efficiency by the incontrovertible evidence...
Page xi - A DRUG'S MERIT. In estimating the merit of BROMIDIA (Battle) the features that should receive full consideration are its definite therapeutic potency and its freedom from the production of disagreeable after-effects, which latter, unfortunately, so frequently tend to neutralize the therapeutic efficiency of extemporaneously prepared bromide mixtures. As a result of these advantages of BROMIDIA, it has come into wide use as a simple hypnotic agent, especially in those states presenting a marked nervous...
Page vii - A Normal Bodily Condition May be maintained by proper nutrition and tone; a long convalescence can be shortened, and anemia and emaciation prevented by BOVININE Which contains the vital elements of nutrition and nerve tone, as indicated by the full, normal physiological standard, namely PROTEINS OXYHEMOGLOBIN ORGANIC IRON ALBUMINS Write for Sample, also for one of our new Glass (sterilizable) Tongue Depressors. THE BOVININE COMPANY 75 West Houston Street, New York City DOCTOR!
Page xii - Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication. By John William Fyfe, MD An entirely new work, based upon the writings of the late Prof. John M. Scudder, with extensive extracts from other Eclectic authors. 8vo, 792 pages, cloth, $5.00; law sheep, $6.00.
Page xix - ... into an easy sleep, with, perhaps, a gentle perspiration — the dose, now, is to be managed so as to sustain the depressed circulation. I find that in pneumonia it is better to reduce the pulse as soon as possible. The inflammation being in a degree arrested, the lung is saved from the more severe consequences of the second stage...
Page ix - Comp. a dependable means of so stimulating the physiologic processes of the body that malnutrition and debility can be promptly overcome and the whole organism given new and increased power of resisting disease. Thus, " Gray's " can be relied upon not only to restore the vitality of the body but also to fortify it against germ attack.

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