The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences ..., Volume 115

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W. A. Townsend Publishing Company, 1897 - Medicine

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Page vi - Send for descriptive circular. Physicians who wish to test it will be furnished a bottle on application, without expense, except express charges. Prepared under the direction of Prof. EN HORSFORD, by the Rumford Chemical Works. Providence, RI BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMITATIONS.
Page 335 - Injections are then made at a point half an inch to the inner side of the anterior superior spine of the ilium, the...
Page ii - Physicians' use only. Contains the Anodyne and Soporific Alkaloids, Codeia, Narceia, and Morphia. Excludes the Poisonous and Convulsive Alkaloids, Thebaine, Narcotine and Papaverine. has been in steadily increasing use for over twenty years and whenever used has given great satisfaction. To Physicians Of repute, not already acquainted with its merits, samples will be mailed on application.
Page vi - LlSTERINE is to make and maintain surgical cleanliness in the antiseptic and prophylactic treatment and care of all parts of the human body.
Page vi - ACID PHOSPHATE. Unlike all other forms of phosphorus in combination, such as dilute phosphoric acid, glacial phosphoric acid, neutral phosphate of lime, hypophosphites, etc., the phosphates in this product are in solution, and readily assimilated by the system, and it not only causes no trouble with the digestive organs, but promotes in a marked degree their healthful action.
Page iii - North American Practitioner, Chicago, Ills. It has acquired a high reputation, and is adapted to children as •well as adults — in fact, we have used it successfully with children from birth.
Page 70 - The diagnosis of the purulent character of the effusion was only determinate by exploratory puncture. This should be done at the upper part of the left xiphoid fossa, close to the top of the angle between the seventh cartilage and the xiphoid cartilage.
Page 358 - My impressions regarding this drug are that it is absolutely harmless; that it shows marked power in causing the disappearance of the gonococcus: that it has peculiar power in allaying the inflammation of the disease, and I am strongly impressed by the degree of comfort that the patients possess even in the most acute stage.
Page 14 - This mode of treatment is especially useful in the case of robust, full-bodied men in active employment, to whom the loss of a day's work is a serious consideration. In sciatica, lumbago, and rheumatism affecting one joint the local application of a liniment containing half an ounce of salicylate of sodium, half a...

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