Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 12

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Medicine Publishing Company, 1896
 

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Page 463 - Co.," and the name of the Company is a guarantee of the excellence of its product. Informed of the above facts, the careful physician will know how to prevent the dispensing of worthless imitations when he recommends or prescribes the original and genuine
Page 463 - Figs, is a product of the California Fig Syrup Co., and derives its laxative principles from senna, made pleasant to the taste and more acceptable to the stomach by being combined with pleasant aromatic syrups and the juice of figs. It is recommended by many of the most eminent physicians, and used by millions of families with entire satisfaction. It has gained...
Page 488 - ... estimated in antitoxin units and not of the amount of serum. (2) Quality of Antitoxin. The most concentrated strength of an absolutely reliable preparation. (3) Time of Administration. Antitoxin should be administered as early as possible on a clinical diagnosis, not waiting for a bacteriological culture. However late the first observation is made, an injection should be given unless the progress of the case is favorable and satisfactory.
Page 463 - ... syrups and the juice of figs. It is recommended by many of the most eminent physicians, and used by millions of families with entire satisfaction. It has gained its great reputation with the medical profession by reason of the acknowledged skill and care exercised by the California Fig Syrup Co. in securing the laxative principles of the senna by an original method of its own, and presenting them in the best and most convenient form. The California Fig Syrup Co. has special facilities for...
Page 488 - The number of cases of genuine nepritis is remarkably small, the deaths from that source numbering but fifteen. (14) The effect of the serum on the nervous system is less marked than upon any other part of the body ; paralytic sequelae being recorded in 9.7 per cent, of the cases, the reports going to show that the protection afforded by the serum is not great unless injections are made very early.
Page 487 - SUMMARY. 1. The report includes returns from 615 physicians. Of this number more than 600 have pronounced themselves as strongly in favor of the serum treatment, the great majority being enthusiastic in its advocacy. 2. The cases included have been drawn from localities widely separated from each other, so that any peculiarity of local conditions to which might be ascribed the favorable reports must be excluded. 3. The report includes the record...
Page 462 - LISTERINE diluted with water or glycerine speedily relieves certain fermentative forms of indigestion. LISTERINE is indispensable for the preservation of the teeth, and for maintaining the mucous membrane of the mouth in a healthy condition. LISTERINE is of accurately determined and uniform antiseptic power, and of positive originality.
Page 487 - ... of nine cases of somewhat doubtful diagnosis, four cases of diphtheria complicating measles, and three malignant cases in which the progress was so rapid that the cases had passed beyond any reasonable prospect of recovery before the serum was used. In two of these the serum was of uncertain strength and of doubtful value. 6. The...
Page 462 - ... adapted to internal use, and to make and maintain surgical cleanliness — asepsis — in the treatment of all parts of the human body, whether by spray, irrigation...

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