Gaillard's Medical Journal and the American Medical Weekly, Volume 87, Issue 21907 |
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Page xviii - In a Pleasant Aromatic Vehicle. A Vitalizing Tonic to the Reproductive System. SPECIALLY VALUABLE IN PROSTATIC TROUBLES OF OLD MEN-IRRITABLE BLADDERCYSTITIS URETHRITIS PRE-SEN I LITY.
Page xv - Strychnine). And the Vitalizing Constituent — Phosphorus ; the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction. It Differs in its Effects from all Analogous Preparations; and it possesses the important properties of being pleasant to the taste, easily borne by the stomach, and harmless under prolonged use.
Page xxvii - HEPATICA. The original effervescing saline laxative and uric acid solvent. A combination of the tonic, alterative, and laxative salts similar to the celebrated Bitter Waters of Europe, fortified by addition of lithium and sodium phosphates.
Page vi - The value of senna as a laxative is well known to the medical • profession, but to the physician accustomed to the ordinary senna preparations the gentle yet efficient action of the pure laxative principles correctly obtained and scientifically combined with a pleasant aromatic syrup of...
Page vi - ... most eminent living authorities. The method of manufacture is known to us only, but we have always informed the profession fully as to its component parts. It is, therefore, not a secret remedy, and we make no empirical claims for it. The value of senna as a laxative is too well known to physicians to call for any special comment, but in this scientific age it is important to get it in its best and most acceptable form and of the choicest quality, which we are enabled to offer in Syrup of Figs...
Page 62 - Solution should be diluted with four to five times its volume of physiological salt solution. The Inhalant (preferred by...
Page xv - Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the respiratory organs. It has also been employed with much success in various nervous and debilitating diseases. Its Curative Power is largely attributable to its stimulant, tonic, and nutritive properties, by means of which the energy of the system is recruited. Its Action is Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products.
Page vi - Figs is a delightful revelation and, in order that the name of the laxative combination may be more fully descriptive of it, we have added to the name Syrup of Figs "and Elixir of Senna," so that its full title now is "Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna.
Page 63 - Professor of Anatomy In the Medical Department of the University of Illinois (College of Physicians and Surgeons) ; Attending Surgeon to the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, etc.
Page xvii - Glyco=Heroin (Smith) The preparation instantly diminishes cough, augments expulsion of secretions, dispels oppressive sense of suffocation, restores regular, pain-free respiration and subdues inflammation of the air passages. The marked analgesic, antispasmodic, balsamic, expectorant...