St. Louis Medical Gazette, Volumes 2-3

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C.R.H. Davis., 1898
 

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Page 232 - The arsenious acid caustic treatment of skin cancers does not contemplate or depend upon the actual destruction of the new growth by the caustic. 2. The method is based upon the fact that newly formed tissue of all kinds has less resisting power than the normal structure when exposed to an irritation and its consequent inflammation. Hence the former breaks down under an "insult" which the latter successfully resists.
Page 41 - Is still true that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Page 98 - The above tablet contains four grains and three-quarters of antikamnia and a quarter of a grain of sulphate of codeine, and is given for the following reasons : The antikamnia has a marked influence over any febrile action, restores natural activity to the skin, and effectually controls any nervous element which may be in the case.
Page 87 - Each essay must be typewritten, distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto and containing the name and address of the writer. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The Committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers or their agents, within one year. The Committee reserves the right not to make an award if no essay submitted is considered worthy of the prize.
Page 152 - AMMONOL possesses marked stimulating and expectorant properties. The well-known cardiac depression induced by other Antipyretics, has frequently prohibited their use in otherwise suitable cases. The introduction of a similar drug, possessed of stimulating properties, Is an event of much importance.
Page 87 - Philadelphia," on or before January 1, 1920. Each essay must be typewritten, distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto, containing the name and address of the writer.
Page 98 - ... in fivegrain size. It is described as not a preventive of, but rather as affording relief to, existent pain. By the presence in it of the amine group it appears to exert a stimulating rather than a depressing action on the nerve centres and the system generally. If this be so, it possesses advantages over other coal-tar products.
Page 98 - It so frequently happens that certain unfavorable influences in the stomach may prevent the prompt solution of tablets that this suggestion is well worth heeding. Antikamnia itself is tasteless, and the crushed tablet can be placed on the tongue and washed down with a swallow of water. Proprietors of other tablets would have had better success if they had given more thought to this question of prompt solubility.
Page 307 - Stucky, of Louisville, he told me that he used far less morphine now than formerly, and that he was able to combat the factor of pain as successfully in the majority of cases without it as he did with it. He urged me to give antikamnia to my patients who had neuralgia, la grippe, rheumatism, locomotor ataxia, and dysmenorrhea, instead of using morphine. I acted on his suggestion, and have been able to relieve this class of patients as effectively and without producing the evils that result from the...
Page 311 - ... fresh chlorine gas comes. This is rubbed for two or three minutes over the hands, nails, and forearms until a creamy paste is formed, or until the...

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